Unlike cloth face masks, disposable masks like surgical masks and N95 respirators should be thrown out after one use. As a last-resort measure in emergency situations, it is possible to extend the ...
A shortage of N95 masks in 2020 led the CDC to craft guidelines for healthcare workers who needed to reuse them for multiple shifts, but a new study, published Jan. 26 in JAMA, has found reuse of ...
Healthcare workers across the US are facing severe shortages of protective gear as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to rise. As the US surpasses China with the world's largest coronavirus ...
Duke University Health System researchers have devised a way to decontaminate the N95 masks that hospitals nationwide have been clamoring for during the coronavirus pandemic. Duke University Health ...
Facing a dire shortage of protective face masks for health care workers, administrators at the University of Nebraska Medical Center decided they had no choice. As Coronavirus Looms, a Hospital Begins ...
Below are five of the top supply chain stories published by Becker’s Hospital Review in March, beginning with the most popular: MultiCare Health System, based in Tacoma, Wash., is reusing face masks ...
The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says health care workers can wear an N95 mask up to five times. But experts say how often the average person can safely wear one will vary depending ...
The N95 respirator masks that health care workers need to protect themselves while treating coronavirus patients are in dangerously short supply. The N95 respirator masks that health care workers need ...
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Researchers uncover disturbing impact of COVID-19-era face masks: 'We must consider safer designs'
In addition to microplastics, the researchers found that masks shed dangerous chemicals such as bisphenol B and ...
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