Up to this point in the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials in the United States have advised healthy civilians against wearing face masks, despite a growing grassroots masks-for-all ...

If you’re living in a Melbourne coronavirus hotspot, you’ve now been advised to wear a face mask when out in public. This is the first time in Australia we’ve been asked to wear masks, with the recent ...

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Guidance on whether to wear a face mask varies locally. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that all Americans, healthy and sick, wear basic cloth masks in public — a ...

WEST LAFAYETTE – As news spread that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reconsider its recommendation on wearing masks – that do-it-yourself, cloth models churning out of pop-up ...

At first they said not to bother with masks; they didn’t work, they said. The messaging has changed now, with studies showing that even masks sewn by hand block half the coronavirus-sized particles ...