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 ...

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 ...

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -Over five years after the COVID-19 outbreak, Honduras has reinstated mandatory mask wearing in public ...

New York state previously had a two-century-old ban on public mask-wearing, which was repealed in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to protect public health.

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 ...

A ban on wearing a mask publicly in North Carolina, even during such emergencies as the recent pandemic, would likely not be strictly enforced — as long as people using ...

Mask bans don’t just take away our right to protest; they take away our right to peacefully exist in public. They are an infringement on everyone’s rights and are a threat to American democracy.

The North Carolina Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to ban anyone from wearing masks in public for health reasons, following an emotional debate about the wisdom of the proposal.

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 ...

North Carolina Senate Republicans voted to repeal the state law that allows people to wear masks in public for health reasons. But it's now facing opposition from fellow Republicans in the state ...