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Health Secur
February 2023
Matthew M. Dacso, MD, MSc, is Chair ad interim, Department of Global Health and Emerging Diseases, and an Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX.
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, substantial disruptions in personal protective equipment (PPE) supply chains forced healthcare systems to become resourceful to ensure PPE availability for healthcare workers. Most worrisome was the global shortage of N95 respirators. In response, a collaboration between the Department of Infection Control and Healthcare Epidemiology and the Department of Biosafety at the University of Texas Medical Branch developed a PPE recycling program guaranteeing an adequate supply of respirators for frontline staff.
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