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 ...

According to guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, non-medical cloth face masks and coverings are recommended as a best practice to help slow the spread of the novel ...

The CDC is expected to recommend that all Americans wear masks in public. Here’s how to make the most effective mask possible, using stuff you have lying around the house. My husband has been making ...

Sharman Dorsey, Teresa Jenkins, and Petrina Cude of Sharman's Sewing Center pose for a photo with protective masks they made based off a design developed with a local doctor on Tuesday March 24, 2020.

Gov. Tom Wolf has now made it mandatory for anyone shopping or working at Pennsylvania grocery stores and pharmacies to wear a face mask. As citizens scramble to find or make their own face masks, ...

More than 20 states now require people to wear face coverings in public. As more states make wearing face coverings in public mandatory, many wonder if masks with filters are more effective. "Any ...

In the early 1900s, a housewife named Melitta Bentz changed history when she transformed a piece of paper from her son's notebook into the world's first disposable coffee filter. Today, the Melitta ...

Guidance on whether to wear a face mask to limit the spread of coronavirus has been evolving. The Taoiseach says the Government is now advising people to wear face coverings on public transport and in ...

Four years ago, long before the pandemic made masks ubiquitous, a U.K.-based startup called Masuku began developing a better face mask to help filter out pollution in smoggy cities. Masks on the ...

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Cloth masks do little to prevent the spread of COVID-19, or other airborne diseases, a new study finds. Researchers from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom found that 90 percent of ...