As students return to school and employees head back to the office all with new safety protocols likely including wearing a mask, a new study from Duke University explores which masks are more ...

Dr. Eric Westman was helping a Durham nonprofit organization provide free masks to people who need them when he decided he should find out whether the masks would really prevent the spread of ...

A new study in The Lancet demonstrates that face coverings dramatically reduce the load of SARS-CoV-2 in exhaled breath from infected persons. The reductions reached as high as 98 percent, with ...

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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 ...

Wearing face masks and coverings is recommended, or in some places mandatory, in public spaces to help stop the spread of COVID-19.But what kind of DIY face covering offers the best ...