Disinfecting N95 and Surgical Masks - The Right Way!

if you have a CPAP , Soclean machine ionizer just put it in there for the 7 minute cycle

if you have a CPAP , Soclean machine ionizer just put it in there for the 7 minute cycle

Just keep the mask on your dashboard in the Sun when not in use. You all are WAY out of the box on this...

Try your best to keep the n95 out of sunlight.

I would guess 30 seconds in a microwave oven would probably do it.

Where's the data sheet or study where these methods are approved? What is the manufacturer and do these methods meet the requirements set forth by the manufacturer?

According to 3M, there are currently no methods acceptable to disinfect the n95 respirator according to four key aspects of successful disinfection.

3M does not recommend or support attempts to sanitize, disinfect, or sterilize FFRs including the N95.

So the short of it... N95s can't be cleaned per manufacturer. Forget CDC or Doctors saying otherwise. Just placebo effect to make the people using them have a false sense of safety, and could actually compromise safety.

You didn't read the study.

Q2: Can the masks be treated using alcohol?

A: No. Face masks cannot be sterilized using alcohol because the charges will be erased by either alcohol liquid or its vapor, as described above.


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Won't the virus die after a few days anyway?

Could you just reuse a mask every few days without treating it?

Try your best to keep the n95 out of sunlight.

What about the rubber strap? Will it degrade at that heat?

Why don’t hospitals know and do this?

Chris Martenson had a great video on this - suggested putting the mask in a paper bag, and putting it in the oven on the lowest setting for an appropriate amount of time.

Seems reasonable to me.

or you could just wear a bandana over it and wash the bandana and then reuse the mask

What about ziplock bags and leaving in sunlight for a few hours?

if you have a CPAP , Soclean machine ionizer just put it in there for the 7 minute cycle

Masks Will Help Protect You. The virus lives within droplets. Droplets cannot get through the mask.

Here you go folks.
Legit information from Dr. Peter P. Tsai, inventor of the electrostatic charging technology that makes the filter media of face masks including medical and N95.


Q1: Can the masks be treated by heat?

A: Yes as indicated in Figure 1, it is reported (if it is true) that COVID-19 cannot survive at 65C for 30 minutes. Therefore, it is safe to treat the masks in hot air at 70C for 30 minutes and this process can be repeated multiple times to reuse the masks without a noticeable loss of efficiency.
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In such a case, respirator N95 is recommended to protect against suspended submicron virus to stop them from penetrating through the respirator body as well as from the edge leakage. The size of a corona virus is 0.08 – 0.12 μm (or 80 -120 nanometers). However, it is always survived with a host, which is bigger than the virus per se. But the host can be a suspended submicron droplet/particulate.

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Please pass the info on to others!

At the local Hospice they put their masks under a UV light.