Self-contamination occurred less often with single-use personal protective equipment (PPE) than with extended use, particularly extended reuse, according to a study presented at the Infectious Disease ...

The Sonoma County Department of Public Health’s Interim Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith issued an order Monday requiring anyone entering certain healthcare facilities in the county to wear a mask.

A county in California wine country is beefing up its vaccine recommendations and instituting a mask mandate, citing "greater risk" of contracting COVID-19 amid the start of the annual flu season. The ...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration put Americans who defied COVID-19 mask mandates on no-fly lists — some of which are ordinarily used to flag suspected terrorists — according to preliminary ...

Meghan McCain slammed “nepo baby” Violet Affleck’s “patently absurd” call for mask mandates after her impassioned speech at the United Nations. Violet, 19, urged for post-COVID mask mandates while ...

Violet Affleck, the 19-year-old daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, took the stage at the United Nations this week, calling for urgent action on clean air, pandemic protections, and broader ...

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s daughter Violet made an impassioned speech at the United Nations on Tuesday. The 19-year-old called for post-COVID mask mandates — while wearing one of her own — to ...

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Forest Service has announced it is reversing a ban on federal firefighters wearing masks and will give crews protective N95s as they battle increasingly intense fires across the ...

Amid the uncertainty surrounding eligibility for and access to the latest Covid-19 vaccine, a new study has found that a common nasal spray could help prevent infection. This randomized ...

Masks saved an untold number of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, but now, the resulting plastic pollution from those masks is concerning scientists. A new study found that disposable face masks, or ...

The federal government will now allow its firefighters to mask up — upending a decades-long policy that had left them exposed to toxic flurries of illness-inducing wildfire smoke. The U.S. Forest ...