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| 1918 || || || ""The recent conclusion, adopted by the Academy of Medicine at Dr Bezançon’s proposal, recommending that masks be worn to avoid the spread of flu among health staff, is not new. The face mask first emerged many years ago […] Would it be too complicated to wear over the mouth and nose a few layers of gauze-like fabric held by a wire framework, just like we wear spectacles – or even more simply, to wear a thick hat veil?” (Le Petit Parisien, 27 October 1918)"<ref name="newseye.euv"/> ||
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| 1918 || {{w|Influenza}} || || During the {{w|1918 flu pandemic}}, people again starts to wear face masks. However, while the practice whould endure in China due to continued outbreaks, it would be largely forgotten in the United States and other countries.<ref name="autodesk.comss">{{cite web |title=99% Invisible Podcast: History of Face Masks and the Power of PPE in Pandemics |url=https://www.autodesk.com/redshift/history-of-face-masks/ |website=autodesk.com |accessdate=11 September 2020}}</ref> " photographs taken during the influenza pandemic of 1918 show ordinary people as well as public health officials around the world wearing gauze masks."<ref name="We share what we exhale"/> || || [[File:1918 at Spanish Flu Ward Walter Reed (cropped).jpg|thumb|center|200px|A nurse wears a cloth mask while treating a patient in Washington, DC]]
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| 1918 || {{w|Influenza}} || || During the {{w|1918 flu pandemic}}, the {{w|Red Cross}} encourages women to sew masks.<ref name="sideeffectspublicmedia.orgu">{{cite web |title=COVID-19 Mask Makers Are Part Of A Larger History |url=https://www.sideeffectspublicmedia.org/post/covid-19-mask-makers-are-part-larger-history |website=sideeffectspublicmedia.org |accessdate=17 September 2020}}</ref> || || [[File:Spanish flu in 1918, Police officers in masks, Seattle Police Department detail, from- 165-WW-269B-25-police-l (cropped).jpg|thumb|center|200px|Seattle police wearing masks in December 1918]]|-| 1918 || {{w|Influenza}} || || {{w|Anti-Mask League of San Francisco}} || {{w|United States}} || [[File:Detail, Co-op Cafeteria detail, Colleges and Universities - University of California - University of California, Berkeley, California. Open air barber shop during influenza epidemic - NARA - 26428662 (cropped).jpg|thumb|center|200px|Barbers wearing masks during the epidemic]]
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| 1919 || || || The {{w|United States Bureau of Mines}} initiates the first respirator certification program, and certifies the first respirator.<ref name="cdc.govi">{{cite web |title=100 Years of Respiratory Protection History |url=https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/Respiratory-Protection-history.html |website=cdc.gov |accessdate=17 September 2020}}</ref> || {{w|United States}}
