The virus that causes COVID-19 spreads mainly through the air when a person coughs, sneezes, sings, talks or breathes. Virus particles can drift in the air and be inhaled, especially in crowded places ...

In late 2019, a novel coronavirus emerged in China. Since then, it has rapidly spread throughout the world. This novel coronavirus is called SARS-CoV-2 and the disease that it causes is called ...

Tim Horlick, who has died aged 65, was an investment banker who secured, through the controversial “VIP lane”, a huge supply contract for Covid PPE masks which turned out to be unfit for use by ...

A new rapid expert consultation from a standing committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine responds to questions from the White House Office of Science and Technology ...

Has your COVID-era mask been a constant companion or is it collecting dust? Americans' relationship with masking has been fraught (and politicized) since the beginning of the pandemic, a time when ...

Kristin Thorne has the latest on mask effectiveness and what experts are recommending. NEW YORK -- You better start stocking up on your surgical or N95 or KN95 masks. Studies are emerging that cloth ...

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University did a study to see which face mask works best to protect people around you. Good hygiene, social distancing and face masks. By now we know that those are key ...

As smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires continues to move into the Tri-State, many residents might be breaking out the old COVID face masks. But experts say those offer little protection from ...