PHILADELPHIA - Battelle Memorial Institute’s new health initiative involves cleaning and disinfecting medical masks for reuse and they just hit a milestone.“Now it’s like a well-oiled machine, things just work, and flow perfectly,” said Vivian Smith, Battelle's Principal Research Scientist.
One million masks have been received by Batelle’s Critical Care Decontamination System all over the country in less than two months.“I think we’re at about 30,000,” Smith said.The global science and technology group was granted 415 million federal emergency dollars to conduct free services for hospitals and other medical facilities that have very low PPE.