Reno County’s EMS director offered a warning to participants in a daily conference call on Friday about the purchase of protective equipment during the novel coronavirus outbreak.
“We were contacted by a local vendor who gained access to what he believed was a large quantity of N-95 masks and was wanting to sell those to us,” said Dave Johnston. “They appear to be KN-95s out of China.”
“We’ve done additional follow up and they are nowhere close to the standard we need for N-95 masks,” he said. “They would work fine as a simple mask, but they would not work as a respirator. They do not meet the standards we need.”
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