Given the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential shortage of N95 FFRs, the CERDM evaluated the available options for disinfecting these N95FFRs. This effort is aimed at identifying alternative strategies that can be added to the measures already available, to provide the best possible protection for health care workers in the event of a shortage. Thus, control measures that differ from those which are usually accepted may be implemented alone or in combination. These measures are unprecedented and highlight the need for the various authorities to develop solutions to respond proactively to an anticipated shortage of N95 FFRs and to be able to distribute them to workers during a real shortage of N95 FFRs.
Given this context, the Comité des infections nosocomiales du Québec (CINQ)...