The new CDC guidance on mask wearing is creating confusion across the country, especially among business owners. NBC News medical contributor Dr. Natalie Azar breaks down how the CDC can clarify the new guidance and how businesses can keep their employees safe. 

Lumber hit an all-time high of $1,686 per thousand board feet this month, surging by 406 percent from the $333 it was trading at the same time last year.

The options presented by the Pentagon could be reconsidered if the crisis lasts well beyond early next week, said people familiar with the conversations.

Chef and reality TV star Shirley Chung speaks about having to make adjustments to her restaurant when the pandemic hit and anti-Asian hate.

Conflicting positions from state and local authorities put retailers and their employees “in incredibly difficult situations” said one retail expert.

The new technology could displace workers and imperil women’s economic recovery from the pandemic, critics say.

“You can’t fact-check someone’s personal experience,” said one expert. “With Instagram stories, people share their testimony, and the first round of it feels so intimate and immediate.”

“For a while it felt like a badly written comedy, the size and scale of the things breaking. Now, we’re starting to feel the pain.”

“Significant questions remain regarding effectiveness and the potential impacts on human health,” air quality experts wrote about the equipment schools are buying.

Every barge taken off the shipping route would add about 70 tractor-trailers to the roadways, an expert estimated. But trucks are in short supply.