Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Reusing single-use surgical masks for up to a week had no major impact on skin or upper respiratory tract ...

A shortage of N95 masks in 2020 led the CDC to craft guidelines for healthcare workers who needed to reuse them for multiple shifts, but a new study, published Jan. 26 in JAMA, has found reuse of ...

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 ...

Unlike cloth face masks, disposable masks like surgical masks and N95 respirators should be thrown out after one use. As a last-resort measure in emergency situations, it is possible to extend the ...

After discovering a room full of N95 masks hanging on clotheslines, some employees claim Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based Vassar Brothers Medical Center is recycling masks for staff, Mid-Hudson News reports.

(NEXSTAR) – Have you ever found yourself with only one mask option – wearing a disposable you’ve already worn once before? Maybe you had it in your jacket pocket or in your car’s cup holder. But ...

Health care workers in short supply are reusing N95 masks amid the pandemic. Peter Tsai, who developed its virus-blocking filter, is trying to... N95 Mask Shortage Brings Inventor Out Of Retirement In ...

How many times can I reuse my N95 mask? It depends, but you should be able to use N95s and KN95s a few times. Stream San Diego News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC 7. The U.S. Centers of ...

How does California plan to stem a personal protective equipment shortage? Hospitals will sterilize previously worn N95 respirator masks and reuse them. Across California, hospitals are readying ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Exposing contaminated N95 respirators to vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) or ultraviolet (UV) ...

Facing a dire shortage of protective face masks for health care workers, administrators at the University of Nebraska Medical Center decided they had no choice. As Coronavirus Looms, a Hospital Begins ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WJW) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized an Ohio company to sterilize thousands of respirator masks for health care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus ...