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Guidance on whether to wear a face mask varies locally. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that all Americans, healthy and sick, wear basic cloth masks in public — a ...

Up to this point in the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials in the United States have advised healthy civilians against wearing face masks, despite a growing grassroots masks-for-all ...

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There’s no doubt that masks help prevent the spread of viruses, but getting children to wear them can be challenging. Choosing the right cloth masks for kids is important, since children are more ...

One of the first critical items to disappear from store shelves during the Covid-19 pandemic were disposable medical-grade masks. What supplies remained were primarily reserved for medical ...

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Any face mask is better than no face mask during the pandemic. But all masks are not created equal. Anti-maskers argue that forcing someone to wear a face covering is an infringement on rights, such ...