This week marks five years since March 13, 2020, the day President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency over ...

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 ...

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.

Joe Biden proclaimed, “Wearing masks is not a political statement, it is a scientific imperative.” He was wrong. There is little evidence supporting generalized use of masks. A pre-COVID systemic ...

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, ...

I remember how it felt to wear a mask for the first time to the grocery store. After weeks of doing everything possible to avoid coming into contact with people (and holding my breath whenever someone ...

On March 28, 2020, as Covid-19 cases began to shut down public life in much of the United States, then-Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory on Twitter: The general public should not wear ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, before we had vaccines and effective medical procedures, the only ways to prevent transmission of the virus were behavioral measures like face masks and social ...

Note: A special thanks to my colleague Jennifer McClinton-Temple for inspiring, researching, and helping me write this article. The science is clear: we know masks work. But with adults throwing ...