A slew of recent news articles sounds the alarm about the growing problem of mask litter. The premise of the stories is that people are tossing their masks on the ground, and it is creating a problem.

The moment mask grievance became a thing — which is to say, the moment masks became a thing — a clever counterpoint was born. I see a variation of it every couple days on Twitter or Facebook, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A look back on the health lessons we learned from the pandemic. (Getty Images) (Klaus Vedfelt via Getty Images) This month marks ...

The New York Times reported that there are at least 538 new coronavirus deaths, and 74,443 new cases were reported in the United States on Oct. 26. Over the past week, there has been an average of ...

That means mask breaks will likely continue in schools. But how can they be done safely – and are they necessary? In this installment of Pandemic Lessons, we tap the expertise of infectious disease ...

Early in the pandemic, health authorities pointedly told Americans not to wear masks. Some even said masks wouldn’t help. The unstated reason why? Federal and state governments, corporate America, and ...

This month marks the four-year anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. During the months on lockdown, millions of Americans were grappling with uncertainty, with worries ...