Though it has made some mistakes during the pandemic, he said, the CDC "is the shining star of the federal agencies, the best public health agency in the world, and they've performed ...

The Southern Nevada Health District on Friday recommended that everyone — including those vaccinated against COVID-19 — again wear face masks in crowded indoor public settings such as grocery ...

The country's top public health agency wants Americans to continue to practice social distancing, hand-washing, and wear face coverings or masks going into the summer as more states reopen ...

We have the best public health agency in the world and we are lucky to have CDC working 24/7 to get us over this outbreak.” Even some in the GOP have pushed back on their party’s resistance to ...

The agency describes well-fitting respirators approved by the National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) – such as N95 masks – as offering “the highest level of protection.” ...

Updated March 31, 8:25 p.m. ET. A few months ago, it may have seemed silly to wear a face mask during a trip to the grocery store. And in fact, the mainline public health message in the U.S. from ...

FARGO — Fargo Cass County Public Health is offering a limited number of KN95 face masks for adults and KF94 masks for small children. Officials say that agency, as well as other public health ...

Public Health In a move to accelerate the making of next-generation face masks, two federal health agencies invited innovators to design comfortable, mass-producible protective options.

Masks may be good, but the messaging around them has been very bad. Public health agencies are losing trust, which may be hard to win back ...

Masks “are actually amazing, because they work immediately — they start reducing transmission today,” said Julia Raifman, an assistant professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health.

Health experts expressed dismay at a judge’s ruling that struck down the C.D.C. mask mandate for planes, trains and buses. By Roni Caryn Rabin Public health experts reacted with dismay to a ...

The recommendation to wear masks – for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people – has returned to the forefront in Archuleta and La Plata counties. San Juan Basin Public Health updated its ...