If you’re living in a Melbourne coronavirus hotspot, you’ve now been advised to wear a face mask when out in public. This is the first time in Australia we’ve been asked to wear masks, with the recent ...

Up to this point in the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials in the United States have advised healthy civilians against wearing face masks, despite a growing grassroots masks-for-all ...

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Guidance on whether to wear a face mask varies locally. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that all Americans, healthy and sick, wear basic cloth masks in public — a ...

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