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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why aren’t more of us challenging the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) masking recommendations for children? Despite changes in indoor masking requirements that have liberated most adults, the CDC ...

When federal officials changed their recommendations on masks Friday, it created uncertainty for many parents of students with disabilities—and complicated one of the key legal arguments they have ...

Five day care workers have been charged with child abuse after a video of them terrifying small children with a scary mask -- similar to the one seen in the "Scream" film franchise -- went viral. The ...

New York State has declared that unvaccinated healthcare workers must wear masks in certain healthcare areas due to the ...