With the Omicron variant continuing to surge into January, you may have noticed more people opting to wear an N95 mask — but those highly protective masks, usually reserved for medical settings, can ...

Health officials continue to provide best practices on how to protect ourselves from COVID-19. New research shows the latest mask efficacy. To be fair to health officials, they are only providing the ...

Wearing a mask is critical to reducing the spread of COVID-19, but rigorous tests conducted on behalf of CBC's Marketplace found that while some work very well, others offer little protection from the ...

Given a global shortage of N95 respirator masks, Ottawa police will don their force-issued gas masks as protection should a call dictate officers could be exposed to the novel coronavirus, according ...

HEALTH officials are now suggesting people wear face masks to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, although they initially advised against such measures. Health Minister Dr Duane Sands said yesterday ...

The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland firefighters can now mask up if they ...

1:51 Air masks: How effective are they? With much of the province experiencing smoky skies, some feel the need to wear a medical mask or other barrier to prevent breathing in toxins from the smoke.

Wearing a face mask, when combined with other protective measures, has been shown to help slow the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19. But there remain many misconceptions about the relationship ...

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