Last year, federal district Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle attracted widespread attention when she issued a decision holding that the Centers for Disease Control mask mandate for airline flights, ...

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The pivot from pandemic-era mandatory masking in healthcare settings to optional masking — even for healthcare staff in most cases — has become a difficult situation for vulnerable, high-risk and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has responded to speculation that it may be considering the return of mask mandates amid a rise in coronavirus infections linked to the emergence ...

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

After questioning the value of general mask wearing early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided the practice was so demonstrably effective that it should be ...

A CDC advisory committee convened last week to revisit the agency’s draft infection control guidelines for healthcare facilities, voting in favor of recommendations that remain largely unchanged ...

Underscoring calls from public officials and medical professionals for mandatory mask policies, Linn County leaders issued a proclamation Wednesday calling on Gov. Kim Reynolds to allow local control ...

Nope. The study found that *valved* filtering facepiece respirator masks are more consistently good at source control than procedural masks when you take fit into account (procedural masks aren't made ...