Though statewide coronavirus mask mandates have expired, many people have opted to continue wearing them to keep germs and other airborne viruses at bay. And with face masks now a common wardrobe ...

N95 respirators, the gold standard of filtration masks, are back in the pandemic spotlight because of the highly contagious Omicron Covid-19 variant. Unlike earlier in the pandemic, N95s are now ...

The rollout of free N95 masks for the public began this week across the United States, with some pharmacies already handing out the masks and others expecting to do so in the coming days. The program ...

And low-wage workers forced to serve unmasked customers don't have the option of buying more protective N95 or KN95 masks, which are designed to filter out at least 95 percent of potentially ...

With the Environmental Protection Agency issuing air quality warnings for several states over the smoke from the Canadian wildfires, it’s important to understand and obtain the correct protection. One ...

WASHINGTON D.C. -- The Biden administration will make 400 million N95 masks available to Americans for free starting next week, a White House official said, the latest federal step aimed at reining in ...

A National Institutes of Health study shows that N95 masks can be decontaminated and reused safely only two or three times, according to MedPage Today. The study, which has not been peer-reviewed, ...

The Federal Trade Commission is sending a total of more than $1 million to fully refund people who bought deceptively marketed face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency announced on Monday.

With concerns of a flu pandemic on the rise, Canadian researchers have determined that surgical masks are not inferior to N95 respirators in protecting health care workers from contracting H1N1 or ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- We're learning more about exactly how federal investigators intercepted fraud involving 39 million N95 masks. Millions of them were set to be purchased by hospitals right here ...

After asserting for years that firefighters cannot do their jobs while wearing protective masks, the U.S. Forest Service will ...