The discovery of new COVID variants and a relatively small increase in the number of COVID cases and hospitalizations have helped put face masks back in the spotlight. The Centers for Disease Control ...

Since May, highly contagious "FLiRT" coronavirus variants – a term for new mutations of Omicron – have been driving a rise in infections and emergency room trips. Virus levels at local wastewater ...

WORCESTER – COVID-19 infections and deaths have dropped dramatically, and that is why Dr. Robert Klugman supports the decision to end a requirement that all health care workers wear a face mask to ...

Wearing face masks may not have lowered the risk of COVID infection after the first Omicron wave, new research has shown. But that does not mean that face masks aren't useful, regardless. The wearing ...

NEW YORK -- You better start stocking up on your surgical or N95 or KN95 masks. Studies are emerging that cloth masks are not as effective in preventing the spread of COVID. A study released in ...

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID Data Tracker, coronavirus hospitalizations — fueled in part by the new Eris variant, while officials sound the alarm about Pirola — ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic took off in 2020, so too did questions over the effectiveness of wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the virus. Now, four years later, what does the science say? In ...

Now you can put a price on a smile. People in Japan who have become accustomed to wearing a face mask have turned to the help of a professional — to learn to smile again. After the Japanese government ...

The emergencies chief for the World Health Organization said that COVID-19 doesn’t seem to follow the seasonal patterns that some viruses exhibit, making it harder to control. Unlike other respiratory ...