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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...