NEW YORK -- You better start stocking up on your surgical or N95 or KN95 masks. Studies are emerging that cloth masks are not as effective in preventing the spread of COVID. A study released in ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that the general public wear cloth face masks to help decrease everyone’s chances of getting COVID-19. So how does the new ...
On April 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) extended the mask requirement for public transportation through May 3, but a federal judge in Florida ruled against the mask ...
This week marks five years since March 13, 2020, the day President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency over the novel coronavirus outbreak. The White House issued the President's ...
Three years after the pandemic began, there's still no scientific consensus on how much protection masks offer. Laboratory studies are clear that masks – especially N95s and KN95s – decrease the ...
The authors reviewed existing evidence for filtration efficiency of cloth masks vs medical masks, and they found that cloth masks fared surprisingly well. Layers matter, as does the material used.