In Tennessee, where the governor allows families to ignore school mask mandates, some parents are making excruciating calculations each morning about whether to send their children to school. By Erica ...

In a recent study published in Environmental Research, researchers investigated whether surgical and N95 face masks cause respiratory distress in children. In the present study, researchers assessed ...

Brittany Schwaigert says her 13-year-old son, Greyson, needs his peers to wear their masks. Greyson has tuberous sclerosis complex, a rare genetic disorder, which means contracting COVID-19 could send ...

With the Biden administration trying to prevent states from banning mask mandates in schools, the debate around these requirements for children is due for some much-needed perspective. A look at the ...

When Tasha Nelson’s 10-year-old son, Jack, heard on the radio that Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin would end the statewide school mask mandate—a move that dozens of other states have taken in recent ...

A boy wears his home made mask at Bamburi in Mombasa County. Children are at a high risk of contacting coronavirus as they have been ignored in mask wearing. [Omondi Onyango/Standard] With the onset ...

Pandering to rank ignorance, Mayor Eric Adams is leaving the school-mask mandate in place for children under 5 — who face utterly trivial risk from COVID, and significant risk of learning failure from ...

Editor’s note: Gov. Jay Inslee announced Monday morning that the indoor mask mandate will be lifted March 12 instead of March 21. For young school children, the changes in COVID-19 safety policies at ...

New York City plans to end the mask requirement for the city’s youngest children on April 4 if coronavirus cases remain low. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons In his first months as mayor, Eric Adams has been ...

A school-based survey conducted by scientists of the University of Zurich has revealed that about 60% of primary and secondary school students in Zurich, Switzerland, perceive mask-wearing at school ...

Little kids can often tell how people are feeling, even if that person is wearing a face mask, a new study published Monday found. There has been some concern that the face masks used at school during ...