Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most people have given up masking. These families share why they're staying vigilant. (Photo illustration: Victoria Ellis for ...

A familiar pandemic-era safety measure is making a comeback as new COVID-19 variants surface and cases of the disease flare in some parts of the U.S.: Mask mandates. The number of COVID-19 cases has ...

Wearing face masks may not have lowered the risk of COVID infection after the first Omicron wave, new research has shown. But that does not mean that face masks aren't useful, regardless. The wearing ...

The emergencies chief for the World Health Organization said that COVID-19 doesn’t seem to follow the seasonal patterns that some viruses exhibit, making it harder to control. Unlike other respiratory ...

There are growing fears over a new wave of coronavir us across the United States, with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning of a new strain, BA.2.86. The CDC said "may be ...

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 ...

Less than a year ago, President Joe Biden declared on CBS News’ 60 Minutes, “the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape.” At the time, ...

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 ...

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Covid-19 was at the bottom of their list of key public health threats, according to the latest Axios / Ipsos American Health Index poll. The number of adults who say they wear a mask in public ...

Most San Francisco Bay Area counties are reinstituting mask requirements among workers in healthcare settings, timed to coincide with the arrival of the annual respiratory illness season and an ...