According to the Us “World Journal”, the COVID-19 epidemic in New York City has slowed down. The city government attributes to the popularity of masks. Disposable adult masks are widely available, and the price has dropped more than 10 times. Pediatricians said that children under 2 years old do not need to wear masks, and parents do not have to believe in special materials such as N95. Instead, they can choose masks that fit their children’s faces and cover their faces.

In the early days of COVID-19, supplies were scarce, with a box of 50 disposable masks selling for $60 to $80 in March and April. As the epidemic has eased and prices of masks have fallen recently, Chinese supermarkets are offering a special price of $7.99 for a box of 50 masks this week.

Compared with adult masks, children’s masks are still hard to buy, but a number of non-medical children’s masks have been sold on the streets and in stores in Flushing, Chinatown in Manhattan and Brooklyn recently. A box of 50 children’s face masks sold in Brooklyn for $25 last week fell to $18 this week, and many parents are buying them to get their children out and back in school in September, said Nicole Wong, President of the New York Parent-child Support Group.