In a recent study published in Environmental Research, researchers investigated whether surgical and N95 face masks cause respiratory distress in children. In the present study, researchers assessed ...

Julia Schwarz has received funding from the Cambridge Language Sciences Incubator Fund, the ESRC, and the Gates Cambridge Trust. While mask-wearing is no longer required in many locations, it remains ...

"These findings have important public health implications. Wearing a face mask did not lead to increased hand-to-face contact, but [was] associated with reduced hand-to-mucosa contact, which may add ...

A recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server assessed the impact of face masks on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) incidence among children aged between 10 and 12 years. Study: Use of face ...