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UMass Amherst Researcher Looks At Face Mask Sterilization

With personal protective equipment in high demand and in short supply during the coronavirus pandemic, some hospitals have been reusing face masks.

Unions representing nurses have questioned whether masks can be decontaminated and safely reused.

Richard Peltier, an associate professor at UMass Amherst, received a federal grant to investigate.

He spoke with WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill.

 

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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