A familiar pandemic-era safety measure is making a comeback as new COVID-19 variants surface and cases of the disease flare in some parts of the U.S.: Mask mandates. The number of COVID-19 cases has ...

A major controversy throughout the pandemic was surrounding the efficacy of face masks against the spread of COVID-19. However, a recent study supports that masks may have done little, if anything at ...

While COVID-19 may be here to stay, the panic-inducing early days of the pandemic finally appear to be in the rearview mirror. Cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to trend downward, per the ...

Despite COVID-19 hospitalizations steadily inching up in the U.S., mask mandates on planes are unlikely to make a comeback, experts told Newsweek. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

As three new COVID-19 variants are spreading across the country, many people are wondering: Are masks coming back? While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have not announced new mask ...

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 ...

Brian is a Boston-based Forbes breaking news reporter. Officials in New York City this week reportedly urged residents to wear masks in public as a new strain of Covid-19 continues to spread ...

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 ...

What is it about conservative COVID deniers and masks? For some reason, mask mandates have been the target of more overheated carping by right-wingers about anti-COVID measures than almost anything ...

President Joe Biden arrives with Capt. Larry Taylor, an Army pilot from the Vietnam War who risked his life to rescue a reconnaissance team that was about to be overrun by the enemy, to award him the ...

The Sonoma County Department of Public Health’s Interim Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith issued an order Monday requiring anyone entering certain healthcare facilities in the county to wear a mask.