Biosilver improving surgical masks’ protection against coronavirus

Mauro Biasolo
HealthMonitor
Published in
2 min readJan 6, 2021

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INTRO

Are surgical masks meant to protect you against viruses? Well, this is something to treat very carefully: surgical masks type I or II (let’s forget some differences between EU, US or other systems) must typically pass 3 tests:

  • BACTERIAL FILTRATION
  • BREATHABILITY
  • BIOBURDEN

IIR masks (used in hospitals) must also pass the SPLASH TEST.

As you can notice, no tests are done against…

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Mauro Biasolo
HealthMonitor

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