Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID emergency, here's what the research says about face masks.

For the past two years, health experts and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have recommended ...

For yard work, the BASE CAMP M Pro offers 99.6% filtration with its 6-layer FFP2 filter, blocking dust, pollen, and fumes ...

Cloth face masks, often cobbled together as a makeshift alternative when stocks of surgical masks run low, and sometimes worn as a fashion statement, offer no practical protection against the ...

A cloth mask is much less protective than surgical or N95 masks, but it might be 'better than nothing' to stop droplets getting through, research has found Research on masks' effectiveness against ...

The rule isn't foolproof, but it should help weed out masks that aren't very protective. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends multi-layer cloth masks for the general public.

If your masks are beginning to feel as old as this pandemic, it’s probably time to get yourself some new ones. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention advises using masks that have at ...

Contrary to popular belief, single-use face masks do not have any sort of advantage over reusable cloth ones. In fact, the best cloth masks actually achieved better filtration (79 per cent ...

The much-ridiculed “Abenomask” was apparently so unpopular that millions of the cloth masks have gone unused and are languishing in storage. At his Oct. 27 morning news conference ...