Many people choose to wear an N95 mask as a way to reduce exposure to harmful viruses and airborne toxins or pollutants.

NORFOLK, Va. — Face masks work. They prevent your respiratory droplets from reaching other people, and vice versa. Yes, there are differences between cloth and surgical face masks -- but a health ...

Single-layer cloth masks may not provide adequate protection against the very infectious omicron variant of COVID-19, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report. Many infectious disease experts ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." With new variants come symptoms like a sore throat, fever, cough, and fatigue, so it's important to mask ...

World Health Network experts urge WHO to make N95, KN95, or FFP2 respirators the standard for protection for healthcare ...

This upcoming winter season, the stage is set for seasonal sickness and COVID-19 infection rates to surge aggressively, in what's being called a "tripledemic" — and healthcare experts are urging ...

Experts say wearing a mask in public when others aren’t can protect from COVID-19 as some states lift coronavirus mask mandates. Business Wire via AP Some states are dropping COVID-19 face mask ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- None of us are strangers to masks these days and now, health officials are recommending we wear them until the air quality improves. You might have bags of face masks in every ...

California's statewide mask mandate was originally set to expire on January 15 but has been extended to February 15 as COVID-19 cases spike due to the Omicron variant. When it comes to the type of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its mask guidance to note that N95 and KN95 masks offer higher levels of protection against COVID-19 than cloth masks, although it stopped ...