New York state lawmakers returned to Albany on Monday as state budget negotiations continued, nearly a week after the ...

While the pandemic’s emergency phase ended in May 2023, the threat of infection remains a governing force in the lives of ...

President Donald Trump's exchange with a reporter who was wearing a mask has thrown social media users for a loop. Trump was ...

Your browser does not support the video element. A new review of mask studies is generating buzz about whether masks work to prevent COVID. The review doesn't draw ...

The health agency confirmed that masks not only stop a person from spreading COVID-19 to others, but also protect the wearer Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering ...

Masks are a big category: There are cloth masks, surgical masks, N95 respirators that block 95 percent of small particles. People use them both as source control—that is, to reduce the spread of ...

“I have said before that I support some variation of restrictions on the use of masks, except for medical and religious reasons,” Ms. Hochul said on Wednesday. People who wear masks as they ...

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie hasn’t totally dismissed doing something about mask-wearing thugs, noting that people have taken advantage of the gap in the law. The bill Hochul is considering ...

Mask wearing became the symbol of New Yorkers’ collective push to “flatten the curve” of COVID infection in 2020. Today, few wear masks. Here's why ...