Mask Reprocessing: How One Alabama Hospital Conserves PPE in COVID-19 Crisis

By Tyler Greer

Medical and administrative leaders within University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital gathered in early March to address what – at the time – seemed like more than an imminent threat. It seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

Some personal protective equipment, or PPE, was going to run out, and it was going to run out fast.

N95 respirators, face shields, gowns, gloves and other supplies were a concern. Seven weeks later, the unease is still very real even though the surge in novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, patients in central Alabama and at UAB Hospital has not been as overwhelming as feared. The fact is that personal protection equipment was in short supply well before the world was turned upside down by the spread of COVID-19.

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