Effectiveness of an Ozone Disinfecting and Sanitizing Cabinet to Decontaminate a Surrogate Virus for SARS-CoV-2 on N-95 Masks
Beaudry, M. S.; Frederick, J. C.; Lott, M. E. J.; Norfolk, W. A.; Glenn, T. C.; Lipp, E. K.
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Medical demands during the COVID-19 pandemic have triggered a grave shortage of medical-grade personal protective equipment (PPE), especially, N95 respirators. N95 respirators are critical for the personal protection of medical providers and others when being exposed to individuals with infections caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. To address the shortage of N95 respirators, innovative methods are needed to decontaminate coronaviruses from N95 respirators, allowing them to be safely reused by healthcare workers. For this research, we use a commercial ozone disinfecting cabinet to examine the efficacy of ozone-based disinfection of a conservative surrogate virus for SARS-CoV-2, the MS2 bacteriophage. Treatment of mask materials with enhanced ozone treatment resulted in 2.38-log 10 (>99%) reduction of phage from household dust masks and a range of 1.43-log 10 (96.2%) to 4-log 10 (99.99%) reductions of phage from common N95 mask materials.
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