Agency in Callaway County to Install Disinfectant Foggers

The recent goal of CARES fund is to help the Callaway county to clean up. Although for the installation of disinfectant froggers are made available for borrowing purpose.

 At Callaway County Emergency Operations Centre, two EMist electrostatic sprayers are installed. and now they are trying to put the third edition of rolling unit and hand-held.

The head of EOC and a prominent face of the county’s CARES Act funding committee, Michelle Kidwell. On Tuesday, at Callaway Electric Cooperative, she guides about how to use the machine.

She quoted “ the chance of world defeating COVID-19 is possible, but the world free from flu and other existing virus are nearly impossible. Therefore, the installation of EMist is a beneficial investment for the Callaway county and the community” when the committee asked, ‘ what all they can do, which would help the people associated with the county?’

According to Kidwell, the usage of EMist is an easy deal as it allows rapid dispense of Disinfectants in a large area. Even with zero experience of using it, the machine took half an hour to disinfect the entire Callaway Senior Centre. The foggers provide electrostatic charge to the disinfected particles, which means the particles attract the surface instead of floating in the air.

54,000 square feet of space can be covered in a single hour by only one person, with only one gallon of disinfectant claims the EMist fact sheet.

The cost of the handheld unit was $1,600. In contrast, the three rolling teams were charged $4,000 individually, also, on ordering a couple of batteries ($200each) and a few straps to convert the rolling unit in a comfortable handling backpack. The entire equipment of the machine came at a whopping price of $5.2 million, which was derived from the CARES Act funding received by the county.

Kidwell said “the public funds purchased these machines should be available to them first. Therefore, the machine would always be available for local business, schools, churches, the municipal government--- but it is not available for individual use, except in certain circumstances”.

Stephanie Vollmer, the director of development at Missouri Girls Town, said at the demonstration that took place on Tuesday that she would likely borrow the machine shortly. If any case of COVID-19 emerges in her office, she also added, “ with flu or strep; this means the building need not be vacant.”

The county has suggested people who will borrow these machines try using Danolyte disinfectant, to prevent from producing toxic fumes as the mixing of several chemicals leads to the production of toxic fumes.  Two devices of Danolyte Disinfectant are installed in the Fulton Medical Centre, for a free one by the government and other by the hospital itself which produces 100-gallon disinfectant solutions each day.

“We were not sure if one machine of anolyte is enough as the outrage of COVID is still here, and what if one machine breaks down” added Kidwell.

Danolyte causes less harm to humans as it contains hypochlorous acid, made by combining water and salt in restricted proportions and by applying current. It is also produced in the human body, said the head of EOC, Miss Kidwell.

This also means without evacuating the entire building; Disinfecting can be done.

Kidwell also added, “ though one won’t die if he walks in a while spraying process in taking place, it's advisable to the operators of the machines to wear an N95 and gloves”.