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Efficacy assessment of newly-designed and locally-produced filtering facemasks during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

2020-09-07

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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic resulted in shortages of production and test capacity of FFP2-respirators. Such facemasks are required to be worn by healthcare professionals when performing aerosol-generating procedures on COVID-19 patients. In response to the high demand and short supply, we designed three models of facemasks that are suitable for local production. As these facemasks should meet the requirements of an FF...

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Literature Corpus work: 05fdb974-84c0-5628-8c9c-47396da31411
DOI: 10.1101/2020.09.04.20188185

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