One year of surgical mask testing at the University of Bologna labs: Lessons learned from data analysis.

ABSTRACT: The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the worldwide lack of surgical masks and personal protective equipment, which represent the main defense available against respiratory diseases as COVID-19. At the time, masks shortage was dramatic in Italy, the first European country seriously hit by the pandemic: aiming to address the emergency and to support the Italian industrial reconversion to the production of surgical masks, a multidisciplinary team of the University of Bologna organized a laboratory to test surgical masks according to European regulations. The group, driven by the expertise of chemical engineers, microbiologists, and occupational physicians, set-up the test lines to perform all the functional tests required. The laboratory started its activity on late March 2020, and

SUBMITTER: Boi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9075986 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature