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Nurses and other front-line clinicians are raising concerns about a decontamination system used to disinfect N95 masks amid the pandemic, according to The Wall Street Journal. Battelle Memorial ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested health care workers sanitize and reuse masks when treating coronavirus patients, rather than "throwing away" masks that are in short supply. "I have to ...

Duke University Health System researchers have devised a way to decontaminate the N95 masks that hospitals nationwide have been clamoring for during the coronavirus pandemic. Duke University Health ...

In the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic, the rapid depletion of personal protective equipment (PPE) used in the care of patients presents serious health and safety risks for health care workers. To ...

An internal Federal Emergency Management Agency document shows that the U.S. government’s supply of surgical gowns and masks has not meaningfully increased, as reported by Roll Call. “The demand for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. IOWA (WHO) – While any mask is better than ...

The Center for Diease Control has advised wearing facemasks to fight the spread of the virus but what type of masks work best? Join Supratik Guha of University of Chicago and Argonne National ...

An Airman receives a cloud of smoke to test the ventilation of his N95 mask issue at Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base, Kuwait March 13, 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Alexandre Montes) To combat ...