Sandia National Laboratories has come up with its own version of a reusable respirator for frontline workers. Sandia has filed for patent protection, is testing prototypes, and seeking NIOSH approval and potential manufacturing partners for its elastomeric half-mask N95 respirator. It’s the latest entry to a small but growing category of reusable masks designed to filter at […]
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3M, others may have unmasked a solution to future N95 shortages
A handful of companies including 3M are working to ensure that a scramble for disposable masks never happens again. The face of the next pandemic could be very different than that of COVID-19, thanks to a handful of companies that have redesigned reusable industrial face masks to better protect healthcare workers and help prevent mask […]