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Autoclaving is fine. Pick the hottest non-damaging temperature. The plan in some places is to put a mask in a paper bag, write the date on it, and leave it in
by burfog 7y ago
Autoclaving is fine. Pick the hottest non-damaging temperature.
The plan in some places is to put a mask in a paper bag, write the date on it, and leave it in a warm place for two weeks. This does require that every worker have two weeks worth of masks, plus spares to replace masks that get really splattered.
- vermorel 7y agoNot sure about that. Electrostatic properties of the nonwoven fabric must be preserved. Tough pathogen likes spores must be eradicated as well. Then, the "warm place" must be kept sterile, or it's going to become the infection vector. The solution must be scalable.
- burfog 7y agoCoronaviruses do not make spores. Even new masks are not sterile. Paper bag storage scales with the number of employees; each employee needs personal space for 14 small paper bags such as lunch bags.