The head of the World Health Organization said the COVID-19 outbreak is accelerating, but insisted that The Food and Drug Administration approved a decontamination process for N95 face masks, a move that could help to address the shortage of masks available for health care professionals.
The process is called the Battelle CCDS Critical Care Decontamination System, according to a statement from the agency. Through the process, N95 and N95-equivalent respirators could be made available for reuse by health professionals, helping to “prevent exposure to pathogenic biological airborne particulates when there are insufficient supplies of FFRs (filtering facepiece respirators) during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the statement noted.RELATED: