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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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

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 ...

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 ...