ROCKFORD (WREX) — The type of protective face mask you wear can make a difference when you're out and about. The effectiveness of different types of masks are becoming a crucial question as COVID-19 ...

What is already known about this topic? Face masks or respirators (N95/KN95s) effectively filter virus-sized particles in laboratory settings. The real-world effectiveness of face coverings to prevent ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) - A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is shedding light on which masks are the best to use indoors. It looked at which types of masks hundreds of people ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose previous advice about face coverings as a safeguard against COVID-19 paid little attention to large differences in the effectiveness of ...

A man adjusts his American flag face mask on July 19, 2021 on a street in Hollywood, California, on the second day of the return of the indoor mask mandate in Los Angeles County due to a spike in ...

Three years after the pandemic began, there's still no scientific consensus on how much protection masks offer. Laboratory studies are clear that masks – especially N95s and KN95s – decrease the ...

In 2019, a novel virus emerged from Wuhan in China. Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) rapidly spread across the globe in a pandemic that the world has yet to recover. Emergency control measures, including ...