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cord-257994-i6hut28h	Nogee, Daniel	Covid-19 and the N95 respirator shortage: Closing the gap	2020-04-13		.txt	text/plain	592	36	35	Due to extreme shortages of personal protective equipment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare workers will be forced to recycle protective masks intended for disposal after a single use. We propose investigating the use of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation to sterilize masks of SARS-CoV-2 for safer reuse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published guidelines for optimizing supply to extend stocks through limiting use, reuse at the patient and provider levels, and alternative personal protective equipment recommendations. Although further work will be needed to determine dosages of UVGI to effectively sterilize SARS-CoV-2 contaminated FFRs, UVGI provides a potential avenue for greatly extending the limited FFR supply in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in a simple, cost-effective, and rapidly deployable manner. A pandemic influenza preparedness study: use of energetic methods to decontaminate filtering facepiece respirators contaminated with H1N1 aerosols and droplets Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation of influenza-contaminated N95 filtering facepiece respirators No financial support was provided relevant to this article.	./cache/cord-257994-i6hut28h.txt	./txt/cord-257994-i6hut28h.txt