Do you think this is safe?

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I work at a LTC. Employees at our facility are required to reuse our masks for about four days. Each day we are expected to place our masks in paper bags and leave them, we get them back the next day. I don’t like that the paper bags are jammed together in a box. I’m worried about the bags and masks contaminating each other. What do you think?

Specializes in Emergency Room.

Could you offer to be a part of a better solution? Maybe a pegboard or 3M command hook for each employee where their own bag is stored by itself? I am not super excited about it, but our facility is requiring a twelve hour shift for each N95, then letting it "rest" for five days before using it again. So if I work three days in a row, I get three masks, and those three masks get rotated on a five day cycle. We each have our names on our masks and get a new one after each mask has had a total of 5 uses. My three masks will then last me for 6 weeks and I start over with three more. But there is no shortage, right?

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