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Can N95 respirators be reused after disinfection? And for how many times?

2020-04-07

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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a major shortage of N95 respirators, which are essential to protecting healthcare professionals and the general public who may come into contact with the virus. Thus, it is essential to determine how we can reuse respirators and other personal protection in these urgent times. We investigated multiple commonly used and easily deployable, scalable disinfec...

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Literature Corpus work: 020a8a00-2c3b-5a1c-aea9-242f65ab8c1a
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.01.20050443

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