Face masks are one of the most crucial measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but confusion and misinformation still surround their use. In this new phase of the pandemic, in which about 70 ...

Experts recommend when and how to use them, as COVID continues to circulate. As new COVID variants gain traction, reinfections become more common and cases climb in certain areas, a few schools and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that you should still wear a mask to prevent COVID-19, but ...

Since May, highly contagious "FLiRT" coronavirus variants – a term for new mutations of Omicron – have been driving a rise in infections and emergency room trips. Virus levels at local wastewater ...

Children at least 2 years of age should wear a face mask because they can contract and spread COVID-19 just like adults.

The uptick in coronavirus transmission this summer has not brought major alarm from health experts. But it is raising questions about whether the risks are high enough to go back to safety measures ...

Despite rising coronavirus outbreaks across Los Angeles County, officials said they have no plans for new public mask mandates — a sign of how COVID-19 policies have changed in an era of plentiful ...

On Sunday, Sept. 29, a chemical plant fire sent a massive plume of orange and black smoke into the sky in Conyers, Georgia, about 25 miles southeast of Atlanta. Since then, many residents in the area ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden turned up in a mask for the first time in months on Tuesday, a day after his wife tested positive for COVID-19. But the president quickly ditched it during a ...