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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new research on Wednesday that found wearing a cloth mask over a surgical mask offers more protection against the coronavirus, as does tying ...

If you’re on the hunt for face masks for yourself and your family, the mask’s protection level is the top priority. The Respokare NIOSH N95 Respirator Mask, a new mask from Innonix, says to go far ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Many health experts agree that the simple cloth masks many of us have been wearing just won't cut it when it comes to keeping us safe from the omicron variant. The new guidance ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - As COVID-19 vaccines go out to facilities across the country, health officials say it’s still important to follow health guidelines, including mask wearing. Researchers at the ...

The omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to spread rapidly throughout the United States, again stressing the importance of wearing masks in public places indoors. Mask mandates are back in effect in ...

Let’s face it: Even as more people get vaccinated against Covid-19, everyone but small children will still need to wear a face mask for the foreseeable future. Sure, everyone is tired of wearing them.

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When Aaron Collins sat down to talk, he’d just come from fitting workers at his child’s daycare with high-quality masks. He said they were skeptical at first, but he convinced them it would be a good ...

A computer model deepens our understanding of airflow while wearing face masks, where particles land in the respiratory tract and the effectiveness of three-layer surgical masks. Even though it has ...

Transmission of the virus can be dramatically reduced by well-fitted masks or double-masking, according to new research by the C.D.C. By Roni Caryn Rabin and Sheryl Gay Stolberg Wearing a mask — any ...

There are all kinds of tools out there designed to help you have the best mask-wearing experience possible. But there’s one in particular you probably haven’t heard of before—and the Centers for ...