Taiwanese inventor of N95 mask returns to work amid COVID-19 pandemic

Peter Tsai (蔡秉燚), the Taiwan-born inventor of the key technology behind the N95 respirator mask, has recently come out of retirement to study safe ways to sterilize the masks for reuse amid global shortages caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

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