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It's time for a new mask. Neither surgical masks nor industrial respirators were ever designed to prevent airborne occupational infections in health care workers, though that is the role they have haphazardly evolved to fill, laments Michael Bell, MD, medical epidemiologist in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of healthcare quality promotion.

Time for a new mask model specifically for health care