Mask bans are ostensibly about public safety. The result would be disastrous for public health—but it goes beyond that, too. In recent weeks, state and local governments have been ramping up their ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Commuters, some wearing masks, wait for the subway in New York, ...

Extensive research reveals the CDC's weekly publication drew unsupported conclusions about mask effectiveness based on ...

The stance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on face masks has taken many twists and turns throughout the COVID pandemic. After initially claiming face coverings weren’t ...

Violators could be fined up to $1,000, although there would be exceptions for people who wear face coverings for health or religious reasons. By Lola Fadulu and Michael Wilson Not so long ago, masks ...

A U.S. charitable foundation said Wednesday that it was the anonymous bidder that paid $530,000 for 24 Native American masks in a contested Paris auction two days ago, and will return them to the Hopi ...

The long, strange story of masking and law enforcement. Credit...Photo illustration by Alex Merto Supported by By Sabrina Tavernise One of the defining images of President Trump’s second term so far ...

Has your COVID-era mask been a constant companion or is it collecting dust? Americans’ relationship with masking has been fraught (and politicized) since the beginning of the pandemic, a time when ...

PARIS — When diplomacy and a plea to return sacred ceremonial masks to an American Indian tribe in the United States failed, officials from the Navajo Nation traveled to the Paris auction house ...

With flu season arriving early and NHS leaders encouraging people with symptoms to wear masks in public, a question arises: do masks actually work against the flu? The short answer is that the ...