Should you wear a mask to protect yourself from measles?
The measles-mumps-rubella vaccine remains the best tool to protect yourself, with two doses being 97% effective at preventing ...
Public Health Survived the Pandemic. Now It Fights Politics.
Five years after the pandemic began, many local health officials say that the politicization of Covid has left them with ...
Do Face Masks Work?
Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID emergency, here's what the research says about face masks.
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With respiratory infections rampant, experts urge masking and vaccination
During one of the most active flu seasons in recent memory, infectious disease experts at Cancer Center say many of the ...
The Daily Signal7d
Restoring Trust in Public Health: Instead of Clinging to Arbitrary Mask Mandates, Ground Policy in Evidence-Based Data
Federal public health responses to COVID-19 revealed a myriad of shortcomings. Especially with regard to face mask protocols ...
Healthy Debate2d
‘We might die because you won’t wear a mask’: A plea to health-care workers
Let’s start protecting people in health-care settings as that’s where people should have the best understanding of a viral ...
5 years after the pandemic started, COVID-19 is still around. Masks? Not so much.
Has your COVID-era mask been a constant companion or is it collecting dust? Americans’ relationship with masking has been fraught (and politicized) since the beginning of the pandemic, a time when ...
The Pandemic Turns 5. We Are Still Not Prepared for the Next One
Thankfully, in 2025, the days of lockdowns and quarantines now seem a distant memory for many—even though the physical, ...
Idaho Gov. Brad Little overturned past ban on mask mandates. Now, he’s signed one into law
The law, which has an emergency provision, takes immediate effect. It blocks all local governments from requiring masks or ...
Five years since COVID-19 began, readers say the pandemic is far from over. Here’s why.
Boston.com readers said the pandemic remains an ever-present threat to public health, despite much of society having moved on.