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Thinking Green: Respirator Reuse Strategies to Reduce Cost and Waste

2021-01-05

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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to N95 respirator shortages worldwide. We compare several respirator extended use and reuse strategies with regard to cost and sustainability.<br><br>Methods: We developed a model to estimate usage, costs, and waste incurred by several respirator usage strategies over the first 6-months of the pandemic in the United States. This model assumed universal masking of all healt...

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Literature Corpus work: 8f60e2db-3015-5657-b8c1-b2037dddaff3
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3746257

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