Masks stack up in US warehouses as nurses reuse N95 respirators
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“Our warehouse is filling up with respirators,” said Bowen, whose company did not sign the letter. “Hospitals are reusing them when they don’t need to.”
Manufacturers say the U.S. is at a tricky inflection point. Supply of N95s has increased, but hospitals are reluctant to spend millions more on respirators, which once comprised a small proportion of their health equipment budgets. Some hospitals continue to ration them and reuse them with a risky process aimed at decontamination that the Food and Drug Administration temporarily authorized on an emergency basis.
CDC has said that N95s should be reserved for health care workers because relaxing the guidance could lead to a run on supply.
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