Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine care for ...

The cold and flu season of 2022 has begun with a vengeance. Viruses that have been unusually scarce over the past three years are reappearing at remarkably high levels, sparking a "tripledemic" of ...

Ambassador Deborah Birx, MD, discusses whether students should be required to wear masks to protect themselves and others and what the public should know about the newest COVID-19 variant, B.A.2.86.

Amid an uptick in Covid infections, administrators, staff and patients are divided over the need for masks in health care settings. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli has reported on the Covid ...

Before a CDC advisory committee votes whether to update its 13-year-old infection control rules in healthcare settings, critics of the guidance’s draft say the proposal is confusing and too lenient, ...

In a recent rapid review published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Journal, researchers presented live, updated evidence of the effectiveness of masks in preventing severe acute respiratory ...

This year, influenza entered a nationwide epidemic phase in late August, much earlier than in typical years. Many teachers are likely busy not only with infection control measures at their preschools ...