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 ...

Social distancing has handed many of us a quantity of free time that we're still learning how to handle. We find ourselves ready to dive head first into long-delayed creative projects. And with the ...

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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - Many of them had made clothes, curtains, tablecloths and costumes - but never a mask. Until now. Ten mothers from the Half Moon Bay have set out to make at least 1,000 masks ...