Covid-19 and the N95 respirator shortage: Closing the gap
Open Access
- 1 August 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 41 (8), 958
- https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.124
Abstract
Due to extreme shortages of personal protective equipment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare workers will be forced to recycle protective masks intended for disposal after a single use. We propose investigating the use of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation to sterilize masks of SARS-CoV-2 for safer reuse.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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