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 ...

Congress should consider whether the U.S. really needs the often meddlesome office at all, or the public health bureaucracy ...

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 ...

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.

Lawmakers advanced legislation on Tuesday that would repeal a health and safety exception to North Carolina’s longstanding ban on wearing masks in public. Republicans who introduced the bill as ...

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 ...