Picking out your New Year’s Eve outfit? Consider upgrading your face mask while you’re at it. Public health experts are warning that the single-layer cloth masks that have become popular during the ...

Revised to include additional information from the CDC. As the highly transmissible omicron variant of COVID-19 tightens its hold on the country, health experts are urging the public to be more ...

COVID cases are hitting record numbers — on Monday, for example, more than one million new coronavirus cases were recorded in the U.S. alone — with the CDC estimating that for the week ending January ...

If you are going to buy a face mask to protect yourself and others from COVID-19, make sure it's a three-layered mask. You might have already heard this recommendation, but researchers have now found ...

Research shows that high-momentum, large-sized surrogate cough droplets can penetrate single- or double-layer surgical masks to a significant extent 1. The penetrated droplets can then break into ...

With the Environmental Protection Agency issuing air quality warnings for several states over the smoke from the Canadian wildfires, it’s important to understand and obtain the correct protection. One ...

(TNS) - Face coverings were one of the first protections offered against the spread of COVID-19, and they remain an important tool for reducing community spread when combined with vaccines, tests and ...