She’s a doctor, he’s an engineer. Their conversation leads to a new system that can decontaminate 80,000 masks a day.
“This is the all hands on deck,” he told NBC News. “To be quite honest, we’ve been working day and night.”
Somerville, Massachusetts is the latest location to receive Battelle's CCDS Critical Care Decontamination System. The nonprofit research company says each system can decontaminate up to 80,000 masks a day.The first site to use the machine was OhioHealth, the 12 hospital system where Laurie works. After the Ohio launch, one of Battelle’s CCDS Critical Care Decontamination System made its way to Long Island, New York, another to Seattle, Washington and over the weekend, another was unveiled in the Boston area outside an old Kmart. Health-care workers can send over their masks to be decontaminated.
“To have an opportunity to provide more N95s to our healthcare workforce is absolutely essential,” he said.a new contract with the Defense Logistics Agency, making its decontamination services for N95 respirator masks free of charge to healthcare providers. The next sites will be in Brooklyn, N.Y., Chicago and the Washington, D.C. region.confirmed
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