President-elect Joe Biden's emphasis on wearing masks to slow the coronavirus will bolster efforts to encourage Kentuckians to comply with a mask requirement, Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday.

On March 28, 2020, as COVID-19 cases began to shut down public life in much of the United States, then-Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory on Twitter: The general public should not wear ...

Update, Jan. 20, 2022: On Jan. 14, during a surge in COVID-19 cases due to the omicron variant, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance to explain that some masks are ...

Evidence of the efficacy of face masks to help control the spread of the novel coronavirus has grown since the start of the pandemic. But a Facebook video, viewed tens of thousands of times, uses ...

Law enforcement personnel have little interest in detaining or punishing Yakima Valley residents who don’t wear masks or practice social distancing in public. They’ve made that clear. And that’s fine.