Alyssa McDaniel, a 374th Medical Group COVID-19 Response Team member, uses a cotton swab to conduct a pre-travel rapid antigen test on a young patient at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 22, 2022. (U.S.

Good hygiene, social distancing and face masks. By now we know that those are key components when it comes to protecting ourselves and one another from COVID-19. But all masks are not created equal.

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Whether being worn, piled up in trash bins, or scattered as litter in gutters and city streets, one of the most enduring symbols of the COVID-19 era is the billions of disposable face masks that ...

June 9, 2020 // Editor’s note: The study on which this news story is based has been retracted by the journal. The retraction notice can be found here. Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in ...

Eileen Yam and Giancarlo Pasquini contributed to this chapter. Five years after the pandemic began, Americans largely see COVID-19 through the rear-view mirror. Overall, they don’t feel the virus is ...