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FDA: N95 masks, now plentiful, should no longer be reused

by Martha MendozaJuliet Linderman
| April 24, 2021 12:03 AM

The Biden administration has taken the first step toward ending an emergency exception that allowed hospitals to ration and reuse N95 medical masks, the first line of defense between frontline workers and the deadly coronavirus.

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