With one exception, every gold standard study of masks in community settings has failed to find that they slow the spread of contagious respiratory diseases. The outlier is a widely cited study run in ...

The six New England states lead the country in achieving high vaccine coverage that reduce the severity of COVID-19. Unfortunately, rapidly growing cases and hospitalizations in New England show high ...

As COVID-19 cases increase sharply nationwide, some health experts are now recommending that seemingly healthy members of the public wear cloth masks when they’re out and about. On April 3, President ...

Contentious conversations about masking are seemingly everywhere, from school board meetings to grocery stores, to public health and medical discourse. Calls for policy changes have intensified as ...

More than a day after issuing new guidance that vaccinated people should wear masks indoors – recommendations that are likely to affect millions of Americans in the form of private and public mask ...

From Edina to Duluth, communities in Minnesota are again seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases. But, unlike the early days of this pandemic, we now have at least some data to make more informed decisions ...

She called the data “a beautiful picture.” In Oregon, the state plans to remove general mask requirements for indoor public places no later than March 31, health officials announced Monday, and mask ...

Before every fashion retailer was selling their own cloth face covering, before a piece of fabric over your nose and mouth became a personal political statement, and before Goldman Sachs was saying a ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday she needs more information to make a decision on lifting the state’s remaining mask mandates — which are still in place on public transportation and in hospitals, nursing ...

Welcome to The Data Point, a series from the NBC News Data Graphics team that explains a slice of the latest news through charts and visuals. As states begin to relax their indoor mask mandates amid a ...