coronavirus pandemic, would be affected by sterilization after eight hours of wear. Manitoba records 18 new COVID-19 cases Sunday “The results showed that yes, we can safely re-sterilize the kind of single-use N95 masks typically worn by health care workers in order to gain a second use, but not more than that,” said Dr.
Mike Czubryt, principal investigator at St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre.The study was recently accepted for publication by the Journal of Hospital Infection.Czubryt and his team found that after being worn in real-life conditions and sterilized once, the masks passed all material, fit and filtration tests.