{"id":5938,"date":"2020-04-14T15:17:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T22:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5938"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:18:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:18:26","slug":"a-scalable-method-of-applying-heat-and-humidity-for-decontamination-of-n95-respirators-during-the-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/14\/a-scalable-method-of-applying-heat-and-humidity-for-decontamination-of-n95-respirators-during-the-covid-19-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scalable Method of Applying Heat and Humidity for Decontamination of N95 Respirators During the COVID-19 Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors present their validation of a method of heating N95 respirators with moisture, finding no degradation of mask filtration efficiency. The heating method is scalable to over a thousand per day using a single industrial convection oven, making this potentially practical for local application.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anderegg et al. (April 9, 2020). A Scalable Method of Applying Heat and Humidity for Decontamination of N95 Respirators During the COVID-19 Crisis. Downloaded Apr 14 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.09.20059758\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.09.20059758<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors present their validation of a method of heating N95 respirators with moisture, finding no degradation of mask filtration efficiency. The heating method is scalable to over a thousand per day using a single industrial convection oven, making this potentially practical for local application.\u00a0\u00a0 Anderegg et al. (April 9, 2020). A Scalable Method of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/14\/a-scalable-method-of-applying-heat-and-humidity-for-decontamination-of-n95-respirators-during-the-covid-19-crisis\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}