Hi all forum.
I’m Steve writing from Milan in the north of Italy where the Covid-19 emergency is by far the most significant here than in other parts of Italy.
As you may know (what happens in all Europe) we have a shortage in the supply of the non-reusable FFP3 face masks and the ones only available are used and reused for days even more than the datasheet suggests.
Here doctors are even forced to work using simple tissue dentist masks.
Having a wife that is a doctor I am wondering if using technology I could avoid in some ways the danger of reusing the same mask over and over maybe touching her face with a contaminated mask.
So I was thinking building her a 222-nm far-UVC light lamp in a box, where she can put the mask after use and being sanitized during the night.
I have read about Far UV lamps and the capability to kill germs and viruses:
Here an article on pubmed:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5807439/I am asking if you think it is a good choice other than maybe change the internal carbon filter.
So I would like, if possible, start a thread in order to discuss and maybe be helpful also for other people and other countries since we have seen the pandemia is spreading worldwide and it will last for months.
Best regards and thanks.
Steve