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- Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/health/covid-masks-china-united-states.html 102 comments
- Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/health/covid-masks-china-united-states.html 7 comments
- Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to sanitize N95 masks, study finds https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/143865832 126 comments
- If you can find N95 Masks you could also use the P95 Respirators https://youtu.be/X38Lj-IB6Qk 4 comments pakistan
- Dry Heat as a Decontamination Method for N95 Respirator Reuse: Electric cooker an easy, efficient way to sanitize N95 masks, study finds https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00534# 9 comments science
- Mask use was directly observed at 6 universities with mask mandates. Among persons observed indoors, 91.7% wore masks correctly, varying by mask type, from 96.8% for N95-type masks and 92.2% for cloth masks to 78.9% for bandanas, scarves, and similar face coverings, finds new CDC study. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7006e1.htm 13 comments science
- 'God knew:' Fayetteville church finds over 7,000 N95 masks in storage, donates to hospital amid COVID-19 pandemic https://abc11.com/6043224/ 21 comments politics
- Surgical (medical) masks are as effective as N95 respirators for flu and respiratory virus protection, new study shows. Given that respirators are significantly more expensive, this finding can inform about what should be recommended and what apparel should be kept available for outbreaks. https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2019/surgical-masks-virus-protection.html 14 comments science
- How Profit and Incompetence Delayed N95 Masks While People Died at the VA - Federal agencies have hired contractors with no experience to find respirators and masks, fueling a black market filled with price gouging and multiple layers of profiteering brokers. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-profit-and-incompetence-delayed-n95-masks-while-people-died-at-the-va/amp?__twitter_impression=true 20 comments politics
- How Profit and Incompetence Delayed N95 Masks While People Died at the VA — Federal agencies have hired contractors with no experience to find respirators and masks, fueling a black market filled with price gouging and multiple layers of profiteering brokers... https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-profit-and-incompetence-delayed-n95-masks-while-people-died-at-the-va 7 comments politics