30.3.20

In the vacuum

DENT: 
We are reusing N95 masks for a week at a time. 

He is what I have devised:  it turns out you don't need high temps to inactivate the coronavirus. 70C (158 F) for 30 minutes will do it. Or, lower temps like 65 C for 1 hour. I rigged my sous vide machine inside a cooler to get those temps. 👍. We can have multiple people put the masks in ziplock bags and run them. I am still working out the details because 70C was damaging the plastic parts of the mask, but I think we are almost there!

<ed: this is what you get with a doctor whose undergraduate degree is in chemical engineering.> 

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