A Tiny Hospital in Texas Might Help Solve the Mask Shortage

For decades, staff have used a mask that’s much more effective than the N95, and is reusable

Roxanne Khamsi
Elemental
Published in
6 min readApr 16, 2020

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Photo: Honeywell Safety

On the southeast side of San Antonio, Texas, a small hospital that faces a shopping mall on what used to be an air force base is suddenly fielding a flurry of calls about a possible solution to the N95 mask…

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Roxanne Khamsi
Elemental

Health reporter uncovering overlooked science. Follow her on Twitter at @rkhamsi and get her new articles here: https://roxanne.substack.com/p/coming-soon