Republican Missouri Governor Mike Parson has refuted claims that his office hid a study that it commissioned which showed the effectiveness of face masks against COVID-19. Parson called reports of the ...

A three-layer homemade mask is the ideal coverings, according to researchers at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson misrepresented the findings of a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, amplifying misinformation from social media as he claimed on his TV show that ...

After questioning the value of general mask wearing early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided the practice was so demonstrably effective that it should be ...

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As California lifts its indoor mask mandate for vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, the questions on mask effectiveness are still top-of-mind. First thing’s first: Masks are still required in ...

Vice wrote about research that assessed the effectiveness of popular "hacks" meant to improve the fit of KN95 and surgical masks. The researchers evaluated seven different "fit hacks," some of which ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Since the beginning of the historic COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most hotly debated subjects has been about masks and whether they actually help slow the spread of the disease. Now, ...

The fit of your face mask has a lot to do with how effective it is — the tighter the better for filtering your breath and keeping others safe from viral particles, including those of COVID-19. That ...

Mask wearing was linked to a 53% cut in the number of new Covid-19 infections, according to a new peer reviewed study in the British Medical Journal, which found the controversial and highly ...