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As more COVID variants are identified across the globe, health experts are suggesting upgrading masks with better filtration, or, if surgical masks are the only options, to “double mask” when out and about.

There have been a number of unexpected side effects during the coronavirus pandemic, and that includes issues with our eyes — many people are reporting more styes, some doctors say, linking the issue to face mask use.

At Hayden Optometry in Mansfield, Dr. Joel Hayden is busy with eye checks and eye styes, those annoying, sometimes painful small abscesses in oil glands, usually near the eyelash follicle. Tell-tale signs of a sty include a small tender bump and tenderness of the lid. “I probably see a week or more now, where I did not before,” Hayden said….

Face mask fashion is getting a high-tech upgrade. New products unveiled this year at the 2021 virtual Consumer Electronics Show run the gamut from masks with built-in speakers and headphones to touch-free devices, reflecting on our new, pandemic-stricken circumstances.

Mere days after a mob of Trump supporters engaged in a violent and deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, a protest against COVID-19 lockdowns and mask mandates is planned at Maine’s State House. Max Linn, a failed senate candidate who says he is now national director of a pro-Trump website, is organizing an event promoting refusal to adhere to...

Just days after Trump supporters’ siege on the U.S. Capitol, people opposing Gov. Janet Mills’ mask mandate plan to protest outside the Maine State House.

New Hampshire officials released new details Tuesday on how and when the COVID-19 vaccine will be made available to residents. Already, 53,675 doses of the vaccine have been distributed and over 30,000 people have received their first doses. Those people are the highest-risk health care workers, first responders and long-term care facility residents and staff. That first round, or phase…

A top Republican official in Massachusetts is expressing remorse for not wearing a mask at a White House holiday party before being diagnosed with COVID-19. Tom Mountain, vice chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, attended a Hanukkah celebration at the White House on Dec. 9. After returning home to the Bay State, he tested positive for coronavirus. He told NBC…

Police in Manchester, New Hampshire, are investigating two assaults that took place over mask-wearing. One of the incidents took place at the Holiday Inn Express. Surveillance video captured a man walking through the lobby, grabbing a glass vase, and then throwing it at a hotel employee. The staffer was hit in the face. Investigators say the man had been in…

Arguments over mask requirements have turned ugly in recent days as the deadly coronavirus surge engulfs small and medium-size cities that once seemed safely removed from the pandemic.

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday outlined his plan to tackle the coronavirus pandemic in his first 100 days. He said he would require masks where he could under the law, secure 100 million vaccine shots and open a majority of schools.

Two U.S. senators from New England want to press more states to institute mask requirements. Sens. Ed Markey, of Massachusetts, and Richard Blumenthal, of Connecticut, have introduced the Encouraging Masks for All Act. The legislation would provide an additional $5 billion to the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund for states that implement mask requirements. It would also make…

The news of several potential coronavirus vaccines offers hope for the end of the pandemic, but experts caution that we may still be wearing masks and employing other guidelines, like social distancing, for at least another year.

Many Republican legislators in states where coronavirus cases have surged are rejecting mask-wearing requirements, even in their own capitols

An executive order requiring people in New Hampshire to wear masks when they can’t social distance took effect Friday. Lasting through Jan. 15, the order requires anyone over five years old to wear a mask or face covering when they are in public, whether indoors or outdoors, and can’t keep at least six feet away from people they don’t...

Government mandates that require people to wear masks in public can slow the spread of COVID-19, a new report published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds, and communities that don’t enact such orders may face dramatic increases in new cases. The report explored the striking differences among counties in Kansas during the summer: Some adopted mask mandates,...

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s mask mandate went into place Friday, but met some resistance in the Live Free or Die State.

Under Gov. Chris Sununu’s executive order, in effect through Jan. 15, anyone over 5 years old will have to wear a mask or face covering whenever they’re in public, whether indoors or outdoors, and can’t keep at least 6 feet away from people they don’t live with.

Amid a rise in coronavirus cases in New Hampshire, Gov. Chris Sununu on Thursday announced a statewide mask mandate for anyone over the age of five beginning Friday, Nov. 20.

People in New Hampshire will be required to wear masks when they can’t social distance starting Friday, Gov. Chris Sununu said at a news conference on the coronavirus pandemic Thursday. Under his executive order, in effect through Jan. 15, anyone over 5 years old will have to wear a mask or face covering whenever they’re in public, whether indoors or…