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welcome to the good news ride home for wed, July 22nd, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

A promising N95 respirator replacement mask designed by a team from MIT.

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Here are some of the cool things from the news today. As the coronavirus

surges in several parts of the U.S. and around the world, the shortage of N95 masks for

health care workers is likely to increase again, to the extent that the need ever really went away.

But in good news, a team of researchers from MIT have just invented a new reusable mask that could replace, or at least, help

with the shortage of, N95s. Quoting CNBC, while N95 masks are made entirely from a special

material that filters out airborne droplets and fluids that could contain the COVID-19 virus, the new MIT mask is made from silicone, with slots for just two small disposable disks of the N95 material, which serve as filters.

That means the masks themselves can be quickly and easily sterilized and reused,

and though the small filters must be thrown out, each mask requires much less in 95 material.

Called iMask, which stands for injection molded, auto-clavable, scalable, conformable,

this design can help solve shortage issues, end quote.

The eye mask can be sterilized in a number of ways, including steam, oven heating, and a bleach

slash alcohol soak, and are much more environmentally friendly since they use just a fraction

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