Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Regular medical masks might provide protection similar to that of N95 respirators in preventing ...

North Carolina Republicans unveiled a new law dealing with masks. There is once again an exception for people worried about spreading a contagious disease, but some health care advocates are concerned ...

The North Carolina State Senate has voted along party lines this week to ban wearing masks in public. Seventy years ago some states passed anti-mask laws as a response to the Ku Klux Klan, whose ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Masks are now required at all CharterCARE health centers. The hospital group says the new mandate is due to “rising community respiratory virus rates and an increase in ...

Pittsburgh health care giant UPMC is requiring masks at its facilities as it sees an increase in cases of covid, flu and other illnesses. “UPMC is seeing an increase in cases of respiratory viruses, ...