AUSTIN (KXAN) — Since the beginning of the historic COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most hotly debated subjects has been about masks and whether they actually help slow the spread of the disease. Now, ...

A new gold-standard review of mask studies suggests we don't know much about how well masks work. Don't be fooled.

Face masks can help to reduce transmission of respiratory viruses such as influenza, according to experts and medical ...

Masks are the most visible reminders that we are still in a pandemic, and the debate over their use and other public health measures has been present since March 2020, largely along partisan lines.

So masks don’t work after all? That’s the conclusion many conservatives took from a comprehensive analysis of the use of masks to prevent the spread of respiratory infections such as COVID-19 — and it ...

Starting Monday, it’ll be up to individual districts and private schools to decide about masks. Masks help prevent the spread of Covid. That’s basic science. But what about mask mandates in schools, ...

The use of masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19 has been controversial almost since the beginning of the pandemic, two years ago. The U.S. Surgeon General made a huge early blunder, in February of ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its mask-wearing advice over the weekend to clarify that some masks are more effective at preventing the spread of COVID than others ...

A new review of mask studies is generating buzz about whether masks work to prevent COVID. The review doesn't draw any major conclusions — but people are using it to say mask mandates failed. Mask ...