Susan G. Klacik: "You’re looking at the floors, the ventilation, new doors. Making sure that everything is thoroughly cleaned."
“It’s very terrifying to be flying the plane at the same time you’re building it,” said one young doctor.
The tool uses nodes, lettered A to O, that assess products in a way that spans labeling, marketing, and regulatory data, says the CDC. It provides a rigorous standardized method for review.
N95 masks are in high demand but so are surgical masks, isolation gowns, thermometers and disinfecting wipes.
Xenon lamps produce pulsed flashes of germicidal UV light at wavelengths from 200-315 nm, killing microbes on environmental surfaces.
The machine can decontaminate the same respirator mask up to 20 times without degrading the mask’s performance.
According to the United States Conference of Mayors, cities need 28.5 million face masks, 24.4 million other pieces of PPE equipment, 7.9 million COVID-19 test kits, and 139,000 ventilators.
"Those of us who must go out into the world and have contact with people don’t have to panic if we find out that someone with the coronavirus has been in the same room or stood closer than we wanted for a moment."
Ninety-seven percent of survey respondents have implemented conservation protocols for personal protective equipment.
The Spanish flu of 1918 killed between 20 and 50 million people. What lessons can we take from it?