A large, randomized study from Stanford (Calif.) Medicine and New Haven, Conn.-based Yale offers the strongest evidence yet that wearing surgical masks can reduce community spread of COVID-19. The ...

“A well-fitted N95 would be the highest quality filtering mask that you could wear,” she says. But “the best mask you can wear is the one that you will wear.” In experimental conditions, N95s are ...

In a recent study published in BMJ, a team of Norwegian researchers conducted a pragmatic randomized trial to examine whether wearing surgical face masks while in public spaces resulted in a lower ...

A comprehensive review article published in the journal Eye claims that prolonged face mask wearing due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is unlikely to cause any serious ...