Few objects symbolize the pandemic as well as the N95. Impossible to find until they were ubiquitous, the double-strapped ...

Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID emergency, here's what the research says about face masks.

Masks were one of the most polarizing parts of the COVID pandemic. Five years later, have we moved closer to a compromise?

Federal officials still wanted to reserve surgical masks and N95 masks for frontline health care workers. States then began introducing requirements that individuals wear face coverings in public.