WASHINGTON — When a teacher in Las Vegas told her students last month that they no longer had to wear masks in keeping with the state’s new rules, the classroom erupted in cheers. Mask mandates are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Are you “masking” when you’re at a bar with your coworkers? Or how about at a family reunion with your distant relatives? Masking ...

In a world moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and medical offices have been the last bastions of mandatory masking. But new research finds that in communities where pandemic precautions ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer recommends universal masking in health care settings, unless the facilities are in areas of high COVID-19 transmission. The agency quietly ...

More than 85 percent of the world's population is living in a country that endorses masking. The United States is an outlier. Current White House guidelines for Opening Up America Again do not require ...

The CDC dropped its universal masking guideline for healthcare workers after a weeklong slowdown in COVID-19 hospitalizations and nursing home infections nationwide, CBS News reported Sept. 23. The ...

Are you “masking” when you’re at a bar with your coworkers? Or how about at a family reunion with your distant relatives? Masking refers to hiding or suppressing certain thoughts, feelings or ...