The Sonoma County Department of Public Health’s Interim Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith issued an order Monday requiring anyone entering certain healthcare facilities in the county to wear a mask.

Researchers at The University of Osaka have found that individuals in Japan who have been infected with COVID-19 are more likely to wear masks than those who have not. In a four-year-long study, they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 2025 photo of people wearing N95 face masks as they join a community vigil outside the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los ...

New research from The University of Manchester has shown that debates and resistance about wearing face masks go back a lot further than the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Meng Zhang, a Wellcome Trust ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whether being worn, piled up in trash bins, or scattered as litter in gutters and city streets, one of the most enduring symbols ...

Lipsitch is the Berberian professor in the Freeman Spogli Institute and the Departments of Medicine and Biology at Stanford University. Cody is the former health officer and director of public health ...

One of the lasting side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and our catastrophically incompetent response to it is the decrease in trust in public health experts and their advice. The media has ...

Although foodborne illnesses stole the spotlight all summer, another highly contagious virus has been spreading in the United States: coronavirus. After a long lull, COVID-19 cases are on the rise ...