Mask wearing became the symbol of New Yorkers’ collective push to “flatten the curve” of COVID infection in 2020. Today, few ...

While the pandemic’s emergency phase ended in May 2023, the threat of infection remains a governing force in the lives of people like Scarbro. They protect themselves from the virus with masks ...

Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID emergency, here's what the research says about face masks.

However, it's not clear from this study how effectively the masks protected people from breathing in particles that could contain a virus. Right now, it's important to save N95 respirators for ...

The scene repeated itself Wednesday all over Williamsburg, a section of Brooklyn where it’s common to see few people on the street wearing masks that are considered among the strongest lines of ...

Source: Gritchelle Fallesgon / Disabled and Here / Creative Commons Attribution License Coauthored by Marisa Krauter, MS, and Kathleen Bogart, Ph.D. People with facial differences are sometimes ...