Here's how to clean your N95 mask or face covering with Covid-19 coronavirus:
Once your hands are clean, remove the mask by touching the parts that rest on the back or side of your head like the ear loops or the ties and not the part that sits on your face. Remember, you are supposed to be protecting your face in general during this pandemic. Touching your face could introduce microbes to your mouth, nose, and eyes, three sliding doors leading to your respiratory system.
Hand-washing the face covering is a possibility too. However, be careful. Don’t touch your face while washing the face covering. Touching your face can be like humming the song “Call Me Maybe.” You may do it unconsciously, and it can be bad for you. Again, treat the face covering like a biohazard until it’s been thoroughly cleaned. That means washing your hands thoroughly after handling the face covering in any way.
Once the face covering is dry, store it in a safe, clean place. The toilet bowl or the insides your pants do not qualify as a safe clean place.Pictured here is a Battelle CCDS Critical Care Decontamination System that can process up to 80,000used N95 respirators per day using vapor phase hydrogen peroxide that kills coronavirus and allows masks to be reused. The above only applies to face coverings that can be laundered or cleaned.
The key is finding a disinfection procedure that can get rid of bad microbes like the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and maintain the structure integrity of the filter. For example, setting the mask on fire might adequately disinfect the N95 mask, but you’d then have no mask left to wear.The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThis is exactly what it sound like, having a gaseous form of hydrogen peroxide run through the masks.
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