Public health experts said Thursday that Nassau County’s newly enacted ban on wearing masks in public could pose problems for people with a vast range of medical conditions as COVID-19 cases are ...

Over five years after the COVID-19 outbreak, Honduras has reinstated mandatory mask wearing in public spaces amid a spike in ...

Honduras has extended teleworking for public institutions and virtual classes until Aug. due to a surge in respiratory ...

Sen. Sydney Batch, an Apex Democrat who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 and underwent treatment, said that she would be concerned if the health and safety exception wasn’t in place as ...

Masks “protect people’s health, especially at a time of rising COVID rates, and make it possible for people with elevated risk to participate in public life,” Susan Gottehrer, Nassau County ...

Researchers performed meta-analyses of studies investigating the effectiveness of various public health measures against curbing the spread of COVID-19. In regards to mask wearing, researchers ...

In the U.S., however, wearing a mask—even in the midst of a pandemic— is a contentious issue, with many Americans refusing to do so despite public health recommendations and mandates.

Health agencies, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have sent mixed signals in the past year regarding public mask use for mpox prevention.

Understanding public health behaviors during COVID-19 Researchers from Osaka University find that mask-wearing behavior depends on complex relationships between context and social norms ...