ATLANTA - With canceled offers and pending parties, Atlanta-based fashion designer Thesa Hardy is currently sewing for new customers and making free skins for grocery store employees in Atlanta.
The disease control and prevention centers are now recommending Americans to wear non-medical cotton masks in public places.
Grady Hospital intensive care staff, Barbara McLean and Liz Skinner, have designed a mask model that hospital staff will wear on their N95 respirators to ensure a longer life.
According to McLean, wearing a DIY cotton mask recommended by the CDC reduces the risk of subconsciously spreading COVID-19 to others, but does not protect you from the virus.
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"These are not medical masks," says McLean. "These are just masks that keep you from spraying your infected drops on other people when you speak and when you breathe."
A new study published in The Lancet medical journal shows that this new coronavirus can survive up to seven days outside of a surgical mask.
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That's why McLean encourages people to carefully remove the masks, trying not to touch the inside and outside of the mask and wash them after each use.
"You may have sneezed or coughed, or people may have sneezed or coughed (from your mask)," McLean says. "So when you take off the mask, you have to be very careful. First you have to clean or disinfect your hands. Then loosen the top and bottom strings and take your mask by touching the strings. This mask is now contaminated. It's a dirty one Mask." .
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Mix the mask in the washing machine with your normal detergent and set the water to the highest possible temperature.
Then, McLean said, dry the mask over high heat.
If your mask has cords like the mask you and Skinner designed, carefully loosen the cords starting with the bottom cords and tie all four cords into a loose knot before washing them.
"What I like to do is never touch the face of the mask because it's contaminated. I'll put my threads on my back too," said McLean, tying the threads together. "It saves me a problem and its parts get stuck (in the washing machine)."
You can also put the mask in a laundry bag before throwing it in the washing machine.
At USI Grady, McLean uses a medical N95 ventilator to filter out small virus particles.
Switches between a ventilator that you use when teaching and walking through hospital corridors and one that is reserved for entering the rooms of COVID-19 patients.
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"It's my sixth day in my mask," she says, holding up her blue N95.
McLean wears one of the fabric masks she and Skinner designed on their N95.
This helps keep the ventilator clean so you can use it longer, she says.
At the end of his shift, McLean carefully removes the fabric mask and drops it into a plastic bag that says "dirty".
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Then remove your N95 and store it separately.
McLean says he treated the first patient with COVID-19 in Grady who tested positive in late February.
Today, he says, his Atlanta hospital treats 75 to 120 COVID-19 patients a day.
The employees collect protective goods and prepare for an expected increase in the number of infected patients in the past week of April.
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You're not overwhelmed yet, he said.
So stay home and when you go out wear your mask.
"This will protect everyone from everyone," McLean said, lifting the mask. "So if we use everyone, we're all protected."
If you are caring for someone at home with COVID-19, ask them to wear an operating mask in the room.
If you have another, use it when you are near them.
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