Amid a shortage of medical-grade masks, federal guidelines now recommend everyone wear face coverings out in public. Here's ...

The discovery of new COVID variants and a relatively small increase in the number of COVID cases and hospitalizations have helped put face masks back in the spotlight. The Centers for Disease Control ...

If you’ve put your COVID face masks into retirement, it’s time to start wearing them again if you live in a large region of the United States that could potentially be affected by wildfires — ...

A child is seen wearing a facemask, as public fear over China's Wuhan Coronavirus grows, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on February 3, 2020 in Manila, Philippines. Photo by Ezra ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that the general public wear cloth face masks to help decrease everyone’s chances of getting COVID-19. So how does the new ...

The Cochrane review did not include studies that have shown that face masks can reduce transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Pictured here Olivia Palermo ...

After three years of requiring face masks, hospitals and health systems across New Hampshire are lifting or easing mask requirements as COVID-19 transmission and prevalence wanes — and the public ...

Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed approximately 2 million people, wearing face masks in public has become the norm almost everywhere and a requirement in many places. In the U.S ...

As of September 7, New York state has lifted face mask requirements for public transit such as subways. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) This past Wednesday, Governor Kathy Hochul ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- With COVID-19 transmission falling, face masks will no longer be required on buses, trains and other mass transit vehicles in Los Angeles County starting Friday, nor will they be ...