Kansas' top public health official is encouraging medical personnel to sterilize N95 masks for reuse to preserve their supplies.
State health department head and Dr. Lee Norman on Friday discussed the state's making sterilization equipment available as coronavirus cases increased another 5.8% and the state prepared to update the public less often about the virus' spread.
Norman said the health department is borrowing massive sterilizing equipment for six months from an Ohio-based research company. The equipment is in a state warehouse south of Topeka and can process 10,000 masks a day.
He announced his department would update case numbers only Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
