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Reusing disposable gloves may increase the risk of germ exposure during the coronavirus pandemic.

With many countries struggling to contain the COVID-19 virus, this has spurred many companies around the world to figure out a treatment and vaccine for the virus. In what has been hailed as unprecedented, a first potential vaccine has been sent for human trials earlier this year.

The good news is that it looks like we might have another potential vaccine on our hands which has also recently entered the human testing phase. Developed by Inovio Pharmaceuticals (a company backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), the vaccine has been accepted by the FDA and will now enter Phase 1 clinical trials.

The company claims that initial testing done on animals has yielded positive results where it showed an increase in immune response. The company has actually been working on this for a while now where the drug was initially developed as a potential vaccine candidate for MERS, meaning that they did not necessarily have to start from scratch.

Assuming the first clinical trials are successful, Inovio believes that they should be able to scale up their operations where they could produce as many as one million doses of the vaccine by the end of the year, where it can be used for additional trials as well as emergency use pending authorization.

That being said, it could be only next year where the vaccine might be ready for the general population. This was stated by Moderna, the company that developed the other vaccine, although they did state that it could potentially be ready for use by healthcare workers as early as this fall.

Second Potential COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Human Testing

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Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, it is now being advised that face masks should be worn as a way to protect ourselves and others from contracting the virus. However, these face masks are now in short supply as suppliers as struggling to keep up with the influx in demand for them, causing prices to spike.

This is because these masks are generally advised to be worn once and thrown away, and even then, they can only be worn for a few hours at a time. This means that for some, especially healthcare workers, they might go through several masks a day. However, Taiwan’s FDA is now suggesting that it is possible that these masks can be disinfected and reused, and all you need is a rice cooker.

Taiwan’s FDA Director-General Wu Shou-mei and Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) head Chen Shih-chung recently made a PSA and a video in which they showed that by using a rice cooker, you can potentially disinfect the mask. Basically how it works is that it uses the rice cooker’s steamer function where after about 10 minutes, the masks should be good enough to be reused.

This will require that the masks are not soiled or torn, and that water should not be placed in the rice cooker during the process. We can’t say for sure if this method works so we can’t advise you to follow this technique. However, if you are in a pinch, it could be worth looking into, although you should probably do a bit more research to make sure that it really works.

Taiwan’s FDA Shows Off Potential Way To Disinfect And Reuse Face Masks Using A Rice Cooker

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