WASHINGTON, DC - Nearly a year ago, the respected research collaborative Cochrane drastically reinterpreted its own "systematic review" of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on masking in response to ...

Surgical masks, meanwhile, afforded 72% and an N95 respirator filtered out 98% of airborne particles. The CDC is reportedly considering new guidance to recommend the more protective N95-style masks; ...

A California county known for its vineyards is reinstating a mask mandate and strengthening vaccine guidance, citing “greater ...

Healthcare facilities nationwide are grappling with conflicting CDC guidelines on masking amid the pandemic, resulting in a patchwork of policies and practices, Politico reported April 5. Some ...

Concern is mounting among healthcare workers over draft CDC infection control guidance that puts surgical masks on par with N95 masks. Nurses and other clinicians are urging the advisory committee to ...

Nurses, researchers and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens ...

Last June, an obscure federal advisory committee—the Healthcare Infection Control Advisory Committee to the Centers for Disease Control—first shocked many in the public health community by suggesting ...

Many health care professionals and scientists expressed outrage after the CDC released a draft of its proposals in June, concluding that N95 face masks are equivalent to looser, surgical face masks in ...

Masks are back in the limelight as Covid-19 cases rise, kids return to school and first lady Jill Biden has another Covid infection. In a recent post, I explained that the CDC’s Healthcare Infection ...

The CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee had asked agency scientists to review the evidence for the effectiveness of surgical masks versus N95 respirators worn by ...