Amid a shortage of medical-grade masks, federal guidelines now recommend everyone wear face coverings out in public. Here's ...

One of the first critical items to disappear from store shelves during the Covid-19 pandemic were disposable medical-grade masks. What supplies remained were primarily reserved for medical ...

Cloth face masks are useful in protecting against the novel coronavirus — but only if you wash them after every use, according to a new study that found that reusing these face coverings over and over ...

This is where face shields come in: they might be more effective than cloth masks, allow you to communicate with others, and are more available than specialized gear. An editorial published in JAMA in ...

A new study from Florida Atlantic University has modeled how effective face shields and face masks with exhaust-valves are in blocking the dispersal of aerosol-sized droplets. The research suggests ...

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