Editor's note: This story, dating from April 2020, contains outdated information about masks for the COVID-19 pandemic. As of Jan. 24, 2022, according to the CDC: “Loosely woven cloth products provide ...

Your trusty cloth masks have gotten you through nearly two years of pandemic. But with Covid's highly transmissible omicron variant quickly spreading across the ...

A new rapid expert consultation from a standing committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine responds to questions from the White House Office of Science and Technology ...

Confronting new, more transmissible variants of the coronavirus and a winter spike in infections, a number of European countries are beginning to make medical-grade face masks mandatory in the hope ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The City of Chicago is collecting donations of homemade masks for people who need them, and they still need help making them. The city has launched a campaign called "Chicago Together ...

A homemade face mask likely needs two or three layers of cloth to be effective in preventing the spread of the coronavirus, according to an observational study published in the medical journal Thorax.

During World War II, nylon stockings disappeared from store shelves as the valuable synthetic material was diverted to make critical wartime supplies such as parachutes, flak jackets and aircraft fuel ...

Sir: Why homemade cloth facemask? Without trying to counter established research evidence, the N95 facemasks have been shown to be the most effective against viral spread filtering put about 0.3 ...

The claim: Nonrespirator ear loop masks do not protect people against coronavirus, and it is explicitly stated on the packaging of masks As mask-wearing has become a common method to stop the spread ...

West Coast states are experiencing some of the worst wildfires on record amid the most infectious pandemic in a century. An epidemic of misinformation hurts efforts to combat the natural disasters. An ...