As COVID-19 cases increase nationwide due to the newly dominant Omicron variant, you might be rethinking your go-to face masks for running errands, going to work, and traveling. And according to some ...

The spread of the more transmissible Omicron variant has prompted more public health experts to recommend wearing N95 face masks instead of cloth or surgical face coverings if possible. (Photo by Mark ...

More-infectious variants of the coronavirus and new federal requirements have people rethinking the quality of their face masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19 until more people can be vaccinated.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose previous advice about face coverings as a safeguard against COVID-19 paid little attention to large differences in the effectiveness of ...

Your cloth face mask isn't protecting you against the coronavirus variant omicron, health officials say. As common as cloth face masks have become, health experts say, they do little to prevent tiny ...

Out of all the different face masks you can choose from, N95 respirators are the most protective, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They’re designed to filter out at ...

The omicron variant of the coronavirus may spread more quickly and efficiently, and now that it is the dominant strain it's worth reconsidering use of cloth masks. In some places, such as Minnesota ...

While the mask mandates born during the Covid-19 crisis have slowly disappeared for the most part, proper N95 mask can help protect you from both the spread of germs and disease as well as airborne ...