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 ...

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 ...

For almost two years, masking up has been a fundamental part of America's COVID-19 prevention tactics. But a post on social media claims the type of mask that many wear to prevent the spread of the ...

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 ...

Teachers in Massachusetts are questioning the effectiveness of the "non-medical" KN95 masks that were distributed among school districts last month amid the surge in COVID cases. The masks delivered ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A chart comparing mask effectiveness across the different types has gained traction on social. According to the doctor who made it, people may be misinterpreting it. “I worry a lot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have tested a variety of popular hacks for improving the fit of KN95 and surgical masks, and found that while some hacks do improve fit, they can also come at the cost of the wearer's ...