People around the world are buying up protective face masks in hopes of keeping the new virus from China at bay. Some companies have required them for employees. Schools in South Korea have told ...

Three years after the pandemic began, there's still no scientific consensus on how much protection masks offer. Laboratory studies are clear that masks – especially N95s and KN95s – decrease the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidance that recent studies have indicated that cloth masks offer more protection against the coronavirus than previously thought. Previous ...

COVID-19, at the moment, might feel safely in the rearview mirror. But other respiratory viruses and bacterial-caused walking pneumonia are stoking human health concerns — and COVID is far from ...