Decontaminating N95 respirators during the COVID-19 pandemic: simple and practical approaches to increase decontamination capacity, speed, safety and ease of use

  1. R. Russo
  2. C. Levine
  3. C. Grady
  4. B. Peixoto
  5. J. McCormick-Ell
  6. T. Block
  7. A. Gresko
  8. G. Delmas
  9. P. Chitale
  10. A. Frees
  11. A. Ruiz
  12. D. Alland

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    SciScore for 10.1101/2020.08.17.20177022: (What is this?)

    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Biological indicators (BIs) (Spordex® VHP Biological Indicator Discs, Steris Life Sciences, Mentor, OH) and chemical indicators (CIs) (
    VHP Biological
    suggested: None
    N95 respirators in the control rack underwent twelve decontamination cycles and were inspected after each run to determine if there was loss in respirator integrity, the results of the respirator integrity checks are described in a separate study submitted at bioRxiv (Levine et al.).
    bioRxiv
    suggested: (bioRxiv, RRID:SCR_003933)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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  2. Version published to 10.1016/j.jhin.2020.12.006
  3. Version published to 10.1101/2020.08.17.20177022v1 on medRxiv