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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/21/mit-researchers-designed-reusable-n95-face-mask-for-healthcare-workers.html?__source=twitter%7Cmakeit+

MIT engineers designed an affordable, reusable face mask that's as effective as an N95 – take a look

2020-07-21 00:00:00, Cory Stieg, CNBC

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/Law & Government/Public Safety
/Health/Public Health

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531

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5.31 min

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The new mask could also be more environmentally-friendly – it uses less disposable material, which produces much less waste than tossing a whole mask, Adam Wentworth, a research engineer at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a research affiliate at the Koch Institute, said in a press release.

While N95 masks are made entirely from a special material that filters out airborne droplets and fluids that could contain the Covid-19 virus, the new MIT mask is made from silicone, with slots for just two small, disposable disks of the N95 material (which serve as filters).

But engineers and researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have a created a new type of face mask that could be a game-changer.

The iMASC researchers "wanted to maximize the reusability of the system," Giovanni Traverso, an MIT assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a gastroenterologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said in a press release.

Now, as Covid-19 infections surge and states such as Texas and Florida and hospitals and healthcare workers once again become overwhelmed with the volume of patients, N95 respirators still remain in short supply.

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