While reusable face masks have become common in the past two years, some medical experts say a reusable cloth mask may not be the best option anymore, especially with the omicron variant. In a change ...

Cloth masks will not guarantee protection from Covid-19, Ministry of Health has advised. Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) together with the Ministry of Health, on Thursday, gave directions that only ...

With face masks mandatory in many states, stock up so we can all help protect others from the coronavirus -- in style. With the recent surge in COVID-19 cases across the country and the emergence of ...

For the last few years Kevin Ngo has spent his nights and weekends developing a new kind of reusable face mask. After calling in favors from friends all over Silicon Valley, the resulting Flo Mask is ...

COVID-19 continues to circulate around the country, with the latest variant XBB.1.5 accounting for more than half of infections. Though vaccines are holding up against the variant, it's still highly ...

Reassuring new research finds that most face masks used by people during the pandemic don't have high levels of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The chemicals, which have ...

Ayers, Ph.D., M.A. is a Johns Hopkins- and Harvard-trained computational epidemiologist. He is the vice chief of innovation in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, associate ...

A total of 400 million N95 masks will be made available for free starting next week as U.S. health officials assert the importance of wearing highly-protective face coverings during the current ...