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 ...

VCU Health shares step-by-step instructions, quality controls, and blueprints for an innovation it created to disinfect and reuse up to 12,000 masks a day. The COVID-19 crisis has spawned a new era of ...

The shortage of personal protective equipment — specifically those N95 masks — continues to be a struggle for many healthcare workers. But an emergency medicine doctor in Orange County, California, ...

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) ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — How many times can I reuse my N95 mask? It depends, but you should be able to use N95s and KN95s a few times. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says health care ...

The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says health care workers can wear an N95 mask up to five times. But experts say how often the average person can safely wear one will vary depending ...

NEW YORK (AP) — How many times can I reuse my N95 mask? It depends, but you should be able to use N95s and KN95s a few times. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says health care ...

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 ...

It depends, but you should be able to use N95s and KN95s a few times. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says health care workers can wear an N95 mask up to five times. But experts say ...

Nurses at Santa Monica hospitals say they are being asked to reuse protective masks as they treat a swell of coronavirus patients and are demanding that their employers and the government provide an ...

Researchers have suggested that people with compromised immune systems should avoid re-using face masks due to germ growth. The finding was made as part of a Japanese study into face mask hygiene. In ...