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Let me help you out.
1. Go to Amazon, search for N95 masks
2. Go to this site, it’s a CDC site listing approved N95 respirators https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topi.../N95list1.html
3. Find a mask you like on Amazon, cross check it with the approved list
4. Order a mask you have certified as approved. I purchased a package of the 3M 8210 masks, following this process, some time ago.
Obviously you can buy an N95 mask at other places; the key is to ensure the mask is approved.
Good luck.
We did similar EXCEPT we did not buy off of Amazon because of the risk of counterfeits. What we did was look at the CDC list and then we went to the OEM and looked at how we could buy. We then went to one of their approved distributors.
I would be comfortable though if that same distributor was the one listed on the Amazon site as the one fulfilling the order. But it would have been too time consuming to look for that.
Covid is NEVER going away, we're going to have to live with it like colds and flus
Unfortunately I think this is going to be the case and we're going to have to treat it as endemic.
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