April 24, 2020

Healthcare worker mask reuse in a global pandemic: Using idle resources to create an inexpensive, scalable, and accessible UV system for N95 sterilization

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Public Health Policy and Practice

• This article describes how to modify existing, or create custom light fixtures compatible with common UV-C bulbs to sterilize N95 masks. This system is scalable and can be created for less than 50 US dollars, on site, at the point of need, and leverages resources that are currently untapped and sitting unused in public and private research facilities. 

Gilbert et al. (April 24 2020). Healthcare worker mask reuse in a global pandemic: Using idle resources to create an inexpensive, scalable, and accessible UV system for N95 sterilization. Pre-print downloaded April 24 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.19.20070870.