PORTLAND, Ore. — People in Oregon will be required to wear face masks, as the current requirement that applies to seven counties expands statewide on July 1. What kind of face masks should ...

If the person with COVID is wearing a surgical mask — the type that’s often blue with pleats — research suggests it will block roughly 50% of the virus they breathe out into the air.

When both people wore surgical masks, the risk of infection remained below 30% after one hour but was just 0.4% when both people wore a well-fitting filtering facepiece mask.

With the recent outbreak, images from across the world show people wearing masks to ward off illness when traveling. However, wearing a mask is not a practice the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The CDC recommends that all Americans wear a non-surgical face mask while out in public, but there are dos and don'ts to putting it on Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE ...

Wearing a used mask could be more dangerous than not wearing one at all when it comes to warding off COVID-19, a new study has found. A new three-layer surgical mask is 65 percent efficient in filt… ...

Another study from December 2021 found, based on particle modeling, that if a healthy person in an N95 spends 20 minutes right next to an infected person wearing a surgical mask, they have less ...

Masking up against COVID-19 is now largely a personal choice. Fox News Digital reached out to several health experts for their insights and thoughts on when to wear a mask — and why.

When deciding whether to wear a mask, people need to take into account their own vaccination status and pre-existing conditions, the percentage of vaccinated people in their communities, and where ...

Many pharmacies and online retailers have run out of surgical masks Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has ...

But the masks were deeply unpopular, in part because people preferred surgical ones. As of late October, more than 81 million of the masks were still in storage .