As the Omicron variant of the Covid-19 pandemic spreads across the country, finding the right mask to protect yourself has gotten harder within previous months. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

Trying to keep up with changing masking guidance from public health officials has been challenging to say the least. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first said that masks weren’t ...

President Joe Biden’s plan to distribute 400 million free N95 masks rolled out Tuesday. Though the disposable N95s are better at preventing transmission of COVID-19 than single-layer cloth masks, they ...

As more and more health experts urge Americans to swap their cloth masks for either a N95 or KN95 mask, others are explaining how often to reuse the single mask. Omicron is far more transmissible than ...

(CNN)You’re ready to swap your old cloth masks for N95s as some experts recommend, but the higher price tag and two little words — “single use” — are giving you pause. How long can you really wear an ...

It’s normal to be overwhelmed or anxious about doing anything as the pandemic continues to wear on and scientists and epidemiologists learn new information about COVID-19, resulting in continually ...

VCU Health shares step-by-step instructions, quality controls, and blueprints for an innovation it created to disinfect and reuse up to 12,000 masks a day. The COVID-19 crisis has spawned a new era of ...