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Millions of counterfeit N95 masks distributed to health care workers in the U.S. [nbcnews.com]
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My Honeywells would likely be tight on a baby. I was not impressed with those.
10 masks ($1.25 per mask)
20 masks ($1.15 per mask)
30 masks ($1.10 per mask)
50 masks ($1.05 per mask)
100 masks ($0.97 per mask)
200 masks ($0.93 per mask)
300 masks ($0.87 per mask)
500 masks ($0.82 per mask)
750 masks ($0.77 per mask)
1,000 masks ($0.73 per mask)
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N95 masks are a single use item. They were never designed, intended, or tested to be used more than once. As in, not use for a day, take on and off, all shift. Put it on, take it off, throw it in the trash. Guess what emergency and ICU physicians and nurses have been doing for months? Re-using N95 masks, because there is not much in the way of other options.
Is there some kind of reliable testing and certification of the efficacy of these masks after use and some sort of decontamination procedure? I very highly doubt it.
Do we have data on how long the virus is stable (lasts) on certain surfaces? Yes.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....jmc200497
https://www.nejm.org/na101/home/l...73_f1.jpeg
Whether you place a mask in a paper bag or a ziplock bag, it seems very unlikely that the virus will meaningfully remain on it after say a week.
If we say that it is "decontaminated," then, the question is, does it still work as intended after re-use? That is a question of fit and filtration. Does it still fit well enough that air is not constantly going around the mask? Does the filtration integrity last? Hard to say. You can get some sense of this yourself. Is it soiled? Is it frayed or destroyed? Is she shape deformed? Etc.
I re-use these.
gaiters apparently are worse than no masks.
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