On April 11, public schools in Providence, R.I, made face masks optional instead of mandatory for students and teachers—celebrating the move as a “positive milestone” brought about by declining ...

As various illnesses have been surging nationwide, a number of states have issued mask mandates to try to reduce the rate of ...

The final weeks of the college school year have been disrupted yet again by COVID-19 as universities bring back mask mandates, switch to online classes and scale back large gatherings in response to ...

As Covid-19 and influenza-related hospitalizations have continued to rise, hospitals in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin have reinstituted ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers in the United States assessed the efficiency of facemasks in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ...

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 ...

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 ...

The symptoms of COVID-19 have changed over time. Here, infectious disease doctors share what many people are experiencing ...

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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated in stark terms the importance of considering politics as a key determinant of not just how but whether the nation effectively responds to emergent threats ...

Despite Covid-19 activity remaining high in many parts of the U.S., many people seem to be completely abandoning Covid-19 precautions. For example, here people are seen not wearing face masks on a ...