Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. The CDC has just changed its assessment of Covid-19 risks from saying ...

Lawrence, Kansas, Facemasks are required sign in store window and someone is immunocompromised after the government lifted the mask requirement. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via ...

With cases of COVID-19, along with other respiratory illnesses such as influenza and RSV, rising again on Long Island, the often-polarizing debate about masking has once again returned to the ...

North Carolina Republicans are pushing legislation that would remove the state’s health exemption to laws banning masks in public, citing protestors’ wearing them in pro-Palestine campus rallies. If ...

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing forward with their plan to repeal a pandemic-era law that allowed the wearing of masks in public for health reasons, a move spurred in part by ...