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 ...

After the Center of Disease Control and Prevention started recommending the use of fabric masks, many people have started to wonder about best practices for disinfecting. A viewer asked about Facebook ...

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“We live with bacteria and viruses in the ambient air and environment all the time,” says Rashid Chotani, M.D., a resident epidemiologist with HealthCentral. “So the more you wear a mask that has not ...

Local health officials are reminding people to properly care for their face masks. As news channel 3’s Madison Weil reports, not washing or changing a mask frequently enough has its own set of risks. ...