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A simple surgical mask modification to pass N95 respirator-equivalent fit testing standards during the COVID-19 pandemic

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has infected hundreds of millions of people resulting in millions of deaths worldwide. While N95 respirators remain the gold standard as personal protective equipment, they are resource-intensive to produce and obtain. Surgical masks, easier to produce and obtain, f...

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Autores principales: Dardas, Agnes Z., Serra Lopez, Viviana M., Boden, Lauren M., Gittings, Daniel J., Heym, Kevin, Koerber, Emily, Grosh, Taras, Ahn, Jaimo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9401101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36001554
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272834