While there are still many uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, there is one thing that remains indisputable: Masks play an important role in slowing the spread. At the start of the ...

Surgical masks can ward off COVID-19 just as well as N95s for healthcare workers exposed to patients infected with that virus, a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests. To report that this ...

The Centers for Disease Control recently changed its masking guidance for the public to include N95 and KN95 respirators, which offer better protection against COVID-19 infection compared to cloth or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a real-world study of face masks conducted before the omicron surge, people who reported wearing N95 or KN95 ...

As soon as a federal judge in Florida struck down the United States' long-standing nationwide mask requirement for airplanes, trains, buses and other public transportation on Monday, COVID-19 experts ...

The question of whether and to what extent face masks work to prevent respiratory infections such as COVID and influenza has split the scientific community for decades. Although there is strong ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose previous advice about face coverings as a safeguard against COVID-19 paid little attention to large differences in the effectiveness of ...

On March 28, 2020, as Covid-19 cases began to shut down public life in much of the United States, then-Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory on Twitter: The general public should not wear ...

WASHINGTON — We’ve already been through two winters with COVID-19, but this year, we have three viruses on our minds: COVID-19, the flu, and RSV. The numbers are up, and Rochelle Walensky, director of ...

The use of masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19 has been controversial almost since the beginning of the pandemic, two years ago. The U.S. Surgeon General made a huge early blunder, in February of ...