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 ...

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 ...

Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine care for ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its mask guidance last week, recommending people wear N95 or KN95 masks. “As we are entering year three of the pandemic, we’re getting more and more data ...

A CDC advisory committee convened last week to revisit the agency’s draft infection control guidelines for healthcare facilities, voting in favor of recommendations that remain largely unchanged ...

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 ...