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Topic: Masking

Pro-Palestinian students and other supporters gather outside of the Bobst Library at New York University (NYU) in Manhattan to protest the schools stance on Israel on May 10, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Nassau County bans masks in public

Nicole Karlis
Jennifer Garner and daughter Violet Affleck are seen on May 11, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Bellocqimages/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/Getty Images)

Violet Affleck advocates for masking

Nicole Karlis
A man in the metro wears a medical mask for protection in Istanbul on February 3, 2024. (ILKER ERAY/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Is the COVID summer wave here?

Troy Farah
Surgeon wearing a medical mask (Getty Images/pipat wongsawang)

Should hospitals be bringing back masks?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Illustration based on a transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (red) (Getty Images/JUAN GAERTNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

COVID variant overtakes its predecessors

Eric Schank
A supporter of US President Donald Trump decorates his truck before a Trump Train rally in Harlingen, Texas (MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)

Truckers protesting mask orders get sick

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
Baby playing with hanging mobile (Getty Images/Guido Mieth)

Misinformation swirls around kids, masks

Nicole Karlis
Medical surgical face masks on a bright yellow background (Getty Images/Yulia Shaihudinova)

Surgical masks prevent COVID-19

Nicole Karlis
Various self-sewn masks to protect against viruses and bacteria (Getty Images)

Cotton facemasks superior to synthetic

Matthew Rozsa
US President Joe Biden signs three documents including an Inauguration declaration, cabinet nominations and sub-cabinet noinations in the Presidents Room at the US Capitol after the inauguration ceremony to making Biden the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today's inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States. (Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images)

Experts back Biden's COVID-19 policies

Matthew Rozsa
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