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 ...

A late-summer surge in COVID-19 cases has reignited the debate over mandatory face masks. How Biden responds could influence the 2024 election.

A man wears an American flag face mask on July 19, 2021, on a street in Hollywood, California. An uptick in cases has prompted concerns that mask mandates could be reintroduced. Robyn Beck/AFP ...

Paxlovid can prevent being hospitalized with COVID-19 by as much as 90% if you are at high risk for the development of serious disease, especially if you have not received a COVID vaccine in the past ...

For the COVID-conscious, Violet Affleck’s mask-wearing has made her a hero Even before the daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner urged LA County officials to resist mask bans Tuesday night ...

When comparing the use of medical/surgical masks to wearing no masks, the review found that "wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness/COVID-like ...

Face mask effectiveness: What we know now When the COVID-19 pandemic took off in 2020, so too did questions over the effectiveness of wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the virus.