Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doctors still suggest masking up in places like your local grocery store if COVID-19 cases are high in your area. (Getty Images) ...

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 ...

Has your COVID-era mask been a constant companion or is it collecting dust? Americans’ relationship with masking has been fraught (and politicized) since the beginning of the pandemic, a time when ...

WASHINGTON — President Biden retracted several COVID-19 executive orders Friday — including one imposed on his first day in office to require people to wear masks in federal facilities. Biden’s ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday that it would wind down much of its remaining guidance specifically targeted at COVID-19, including an official end to a pandemic-era ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Wearing face masks may not have lowered the risk of COVID infection after the first Omicron wave, new research has shown.