NEW YORK -- You better start stocking up on your surgical or N95 or KN95 masks. Studies are emerging that cloth masks are not as effective in preventing the spread of COVID. A study released in ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Wearing face masks may not have lowered the risk of COVID infection after the first Omicron wave, new research has shown.

Like the insect, the Cicada COVID-19 variant has shown a pattern of disappearing and reappearing months later.

Mask mandates have been reinstated in healthcare systems across several U.S. states as cases and hospitalizations of respiratory illnesses—including Covid, the flu and RSV–continue to increase ...