Face mask effectiveness: What we know now 02:59. 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.

As mask mandates end, experts increasingly recommend wearing a high-quality mask to avoid catching COVID-19—even if no one else wears one. As mandates end, people are relying on one-way masking.

Easing mask mandates have had many people ditching their face coverings. Experts advise when it still may be a good idea to wear one, plus how to safely store unused ones.

At this point in the coronavirus pandemic, local mask mandates are disappearing as quickly as toilet paper did from grocery stores shelves two years ago. At the national level, the guidance to ...

The mask market is particularly tricky for parents trying to find masks for children. No N95 mask has been approved for children, so any mask that claims to be an N95 for kids is a fake.

The mask clung to my skin immediately. No slipping or sliding. Photo: Hannah Frye. I worried that the mask might slip and slide throughout the night, but it clung to my skin immediately and stayed ...

To mask or not to mask? COVID-19 experts share their advice NPR asked COVID-19 experts how we should keep weighing risk as we enter the fourth year of the pandemic. Health.

Despite COVID-19 hospitalizations steadily inching up in the U.S., mask mandates on planes are unlikely to make a comeback, experts told Newsweek.. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...