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In 2002, Lee Ann Parsley-Davenport won the silver medal in skeleton – the sport in which a person slides head-first down a frozen track, lying face down on a sled.
A mask that’s washable, breathes easily and filters the coronavirus? A patent-pending technology developed at UVA could lead to one of the first plain cloth masks to meet new official standards for filtration and breathability.