Pandemic spurs students to develop innovative respirator
Further, he said, people were unhappy with masks lacking in transparency, frustrated they couldn’t see others’ faces. “The main issue that we saw a year ago was that face shields were ineffective in blocking pathogens from the face as shown by numerous studies by researchers,” Saeed said. “Protection of one's eyes and breathing is important in this time. Furthermore, no full respirator could be used by healthcare professionals as all of them were bulky, had microcavities which were not efficiently sanitizable, and did not filter exhaled breath.” Another issue identified by the...
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