Face mask rules are changing again. The UK government has now decided that face coverings will also be required when visiting cinemas, museums, galleries, places of worship and anywhere else you might ...

Cloth face masks are useful in protecting against the novel coronavirus — but only if you wash them after every use, according to a new study that found that reusing these face coverings over and over ...

My favourite purchase of 2020 was a pack of silk face masks I bought from a shop on Etsy. I wear them every time I leave my house, always keeping one in my purse just in case I forget to grab one on ...

While it's incredibly important to wear a face mask in public to reduce the spread of COVID-19, it's equally important to make sure you wash your masks properly. Just how often should you clean a ...

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“We live with bacteria and viruses in the ambient air and environment all the time,” says Rashid Chotani, M.D., a resident epidemiologist with HealthCentral. “So the more you wear a mask that has not ...

It's important to wash your hands regularly to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus and other viruses. However, not as many of us remember that it's important to wash masks and face coverings ...

Many people have multiple masks that they swap out while venturing out of their homes, but regardless of the number, it's important to keep your masks clean and yourself safe. One way to do that is to ...

It's a particularly COVID-19 era problem: Putting on a cloth face mask (reusable, please!) right before your journey outside only to realize, well, it doesn't smell ...

Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS, infectious disease epidemiologist and science communication lead at The COVID Tracking Project, says to think of your face masks like they're underwear. "Just change it ...