COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

Our babysitter’s mom is a CRNA and was telling us that her hospital is using UV for mask sterilization. The one issue they have run across, at least with their method, is that it’s drying out the rubber bands on the masks. They are having bands break in the middle of surgeries, etc.
Yeah UV kills most rubbers and plastics.

EPDM or Silicone are more resistant. Lots of outdoor UV resistant and anti weathering rubber bands are EPDM.