Counterfeit 3M respirators are being distributed in healthcare facilities.
Thousands of counterfeit 3M respirators have slipped past U.S. investigators in recent months, making it to the cheeks and chins of health care workers and perplexing experts who say they're not vastly inferior to the real thing. N95 masks are prized for their ability to filter out 95 percent of the minuscule particles that can carry the coronavirus.
Yet the fakes pouring into the country have fooled health care leaders from coast to coast. As many as 1.9 million counterfeit 3M masks made their way to about 40 hospitals in Washington state, according to the state hospital association, spurring officials to alert staff members and pull the masks off the shelf. The elite Cleveland Clinic recently acknowledged that, since November, it had inadvertently distributed 3M counterfeits to hospital staffers. A Minnesota hospital made a similar admission.
The Health Professionals and Allied Employees union has created a guide to identify fake masks.
https://www.hpae.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Fake-Face-Mask-Guide-for-HPAE-Members-1.pdf
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