As COVID-19 cases soar -- particularly in parts of the country that have been encouraging business as usual -- wearing face masks at retail and in restaurants has become a contentious issue at times, ...

Acts of aggression are skyrocketing to troubling highs on airplanes. Airlines have now reported 3,000 cases of disruptive passengers to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) this year, and the ...

Kemi Badenoch has rejected calls for masks to be worn in public again, as NHS bosses talk of a coming “tidal wave” of flu infections. I am “still slightly traumatised by all the mask-wearing that we ...

Co-written with: Elena Giulia Clemente, Michele Gelfand & Dylan Pieper Despite the availability of effective vaccines for the virus that causes COVID-19, it remains important to public health to wear ...

Nearly 20 months into the coronavirus pandemic, COVID fatigue has happened to just about all of us. Bickering over mask-wearing is one of the many symptoms of this collective exhaustion. On both sides ...

As cases of the super flu sweep across Britain and hospitals declare critical incidents, experts declare that more people need to wear masks. Latest data suggest flu hospital admissions are up 55 per ...

Paul Hunter consults for the World Health Organization. He receives funding from National Institute for Health Research and has received funding from the World Health Organization and the European ...