Masks provide protection from COVID-19, says a new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Masking in the community to reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that ...

The stance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on face masks has taken many twists and turns throughout the COVID pandemic. After initially claiming face coverings weren’t necessary, the ...

While face masks are an effective way of preventing the spread of infectious illnesses, a new study reveals the impact they have on people's mood and cognition. The research is published in the ...

With one exception, every gold standard study of masks in community settings has failed to find that they slow the spread of contagious respiratory diseases. The outlier is a widely cited study run in ...

Three years after a global pandemic prompted public health officials to recommend widespread mask-wearing, social media users warned that people who wore masks unknowingly subjected themselves to ...

Coming soon to your Twitter feed: another Centers for Disease Control and Prevention poster on the virtues of mask-wearing. “People who reported always wearing a mask in indoor public settings were ...