The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has changed its guidelines about masks and respirators a number of times over the past two years and gave its most recent update on January 14, ...

1. What changed in the CDC guidelines? The CDC currently recommends that you “wear the most protective mask you can that fits well and that you will wear consistently.” The question, then, is what ...

How can consumers know how much protection their face covering really offers? A new Duke University study attempts to answer that very question. The study conducted at Duke will help not only in the ...

PHILADELPHIA — Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the public debate on masks is as heated as ever — especially in Philadelphia, which earned national attention for once again requiring masks in ...

Coming soon to your Twitter feed: another Centers for Disease Control and Prevention poster on the virtues of mask-wearing. “People who reported always wearing a mask in indoor public settings were ...

Catherine Clase is a member of the Cloth Mask Knowledge Exchange, a research and knowledge translation group that includes industry stakeholders. Industry stakeholders contribute to the Cloth Mask ...

N95 and KN95 respirator masks reduce the odds of testing positive for Covid-19 by 83% compared to 66% for surgical masks and 56% for cloth masks, according to a real-world study published Friday by ...

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 ...

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