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A variety of medical experts, including at UAB, have published statistics that show masks were an effective way to prevent the COVID-19 transmission.
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masks stories
State
Don’t look for many masks. People just aren’t wearing them.
Featured Opinion
No matter how much they might want to be better, Kay Ivey and GOP leaders are bending to the base.
Featured Opinion
We don’t seem to have the patience it’ll take to really turn the corner on COVID.
Opinion
One of the latest and most harmful pieces of misinformation is that “breakthrough infections” prove the vaccines don’t work.
Education
The system has reverted to its optional mask policy for staff, visitors and students, only three weeks after enacting a mask mandate
Health
The FDA could give emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine for those aged 5 to 11 by the end of October.
Featured Opinion
"To date, no one has identified a motive for why the country's doctors and scientists would be trying to trick everyone into wearing a...
Congress
"I’m not sure that me wearing a mask, whether you think I should or not, really is going to help anybody," Moore said recently.
Local news
A group of over 700 residents, doctors and researchers with children in the Vestavia Hills school system are urging universal masking.