Brian is a Boston-based Forbes breaking news reporter. Officials in New York City this week reportedly urged residents to wear masks in public as a new strain of Covid-19 continues to spread ...

Mask mandates have been reinstated in healthcare systems across several U.S. states as cases and hospitalizations of respiratory illnesses—including Covid, the flu and RSV–continue to increase ...

A familiar pandemic-era safety measure is making a comeback as new COVID-19 variants surface and cases of the disease flare in some parts of the U.S.: Mask mandates. The number of COVID-19 cases has ...

HOLLAND, Mich. -- A 7-year-old in Michigan came up with a cute idea to protect the tooth fairy during the coronavirus pandemic: a tiny, fairy-sized face mask. Evolette Westhouse lost her tooth after ...

WASHINGTON – A late-summer surge in COVID-19 cases has meant the return of face masks in some parts of the country, reigniting a political battle that quickly became the centerpiece of a broader fight ...

The discovery of new COVID variants and a relatively small increase in the number of COVID cases and hospitalizations have helped put face masks back in the spotlight. The Centers for Disease Control ...

Despite rising coronavirus outbreaks across Los Angeles County, officials said they have no plans for new public mask mandates — a sign of how COVID-19 policies have changed in an era of plentiful ...

Most San Francisco Bay Area counties are reinstituting mask requirements among workers in healthcare settings, timed to coincide with the arrival of the annual respiratory illness season and an ...