WASHINGTON, DC - Nearly a year ago, the respected research collaborative Cochrane drastically reinterpreted its own "systematic review" of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on masking in response to ...

The CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee had asked agency scientists to review the evidence for the effectiveness of surgical masks versus N95 respirators worn by ...

After questioning the value of general mask wearing early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided the practice was so demonstrably effective that it should be ...

Double-masking — specifically, wearing a surgical mask underneath a cloth mask — may provide an extremely high level of protection against the viral particles that cause Covid-19, the Centers for ...

After questioning the value of general mask wearing early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decided the practice was so demonstrably effective that it ...

A three-layer homemade mask is the ideal coverings, according to researchers at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

WASHINGTON — We’ve already been through two winters with COVID-19, but this year, we have three viruses on our minds: COVID-19, the flu, and RSV. The numbers are up, and Rochelle Walensky, director of ...

Masks are back in the limelight as Covid-19 cases rise, kids return to school and first lady Jill Biden has another Covid infection. In a recent post, I explained that the CDC’s Healthcare Infection ...

A federal judge in Florida struck down the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s public transportation mask mandate on April 18, meaning that people no longer have to wear a mask on ...

President Donald Trump said on Friday that the CDC will begin recommending the public use non-medical or non-surgical grade masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Trump added that masks intended for ...