Immigration advocates and political leaders used 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, which houses the city's ICE field office, as ...

New York Rep. Nydia Velazquez held a press conference outside an immigration court to advocate for passage of her bill to ban ...

HEALTH Face masks made ‘little to no difference’ in preventing spread of COVID, scientific review finds Research suggests CDC’s claims of mask effectiveness may have been exaggerated ...

When comparing the use of medical/surgical masks to wearing no masks, the review found that “wearing a mask may make little to no difference in how many people caught a flu-like illness/COVID ...

It was no surprise during the pandemic when adverse effects of masks were reported in a study of health-care workers in New York City. More than 70 percent of the workers said that prolonged ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic took off in 2020, so too did questions over the effectiveness of wearing a face mask to prevent ...

No face mask provides 100% protection and not all masks are created equal. How do masks prevent COVID-19? Chin-Hong: The virus that causes COVID-19 spreads primarily through respiratory droplets – or ...

The stance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on face masks has taken many twists and turns throughout the COVID pandemic. After initially claiming face coverings weren’t ...

Face mask effectiveness: What we know now 02:59. When the COVID-19 pandemic took off in 2020, so too did questions over the effectiveness of wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the virus.