{"id":7213,"date":"2020-05-29T12:10:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7213"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:11:37","slug":"pretreated-household-materials-carry-similar-filtration-protection-against-pathogens-when-compared-with-surgical-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/29\/pretreated-household-materials-carry-similar-filtration-protection-against-pathogens-when-compared-with-surgical-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretreated Household Materials Carry Similar Filtration Protection against Pathogens When Compared with Surgical Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Carnino\u00a0et al. demonstrated that household paper towel<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0pretreated with a salt-based solution\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as little as 10 minutes may\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">provide\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">similar protection against viral-sized particles compared with a medical grade mask. This suggests<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">pretreated\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">inexpensive<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0materials\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">might\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">be used to complement homemade,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">surgical<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0or N95 masks to increase their lifespan and effectiveness.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Carnino\u00a0et al. (May\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">5,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). Pretreated Household Materials Carry Similar Filtration Protection against Pathogens When Compared with Surgical Masks. American Journal of Infection Control.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajic.2020.05.024\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajic.2020.05.024<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carnino\u00a0et al. demonstrated that household paper towels\u00a0pretreated with a salt-based solution\u00a0for\u00a0as little as 10 minutes may\u00a0provide\u00a0similar protection against viral-sized particles compared with a medical grade mask. This suggests\u00a0pretreated\u00a0inexpensive\u00a0materials\u00a0might\u00a0be used to complement homemade,\u00a0surgical,\u00a0or N95 masks to increase their lifespan and effectiveness.\u00a0\u00a0 Carnino\u00a0et al. (May\u00a025,\u00a02020). Pretreated Household Materials Carry Similar Filtration Protection against Pathogens When Compared with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/29\/pretreated-household-materials-carry-similar-filtration-protection-against-pathogens-when-compared-with-surgical-masks\/\">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":[22],"class_list":["post-7213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213","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=7213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7213\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7213"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}