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<div class="">Please see the message below from Elazer Edelman regarding efforts to collect personal protective equipment for donations to local hospitals and medical centers. A few key points:</div>
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<div class="">1) please asses your own lab’s needs and keep what you will require to maintain appropriate safety and compliance with biohazard and EHS regulations. </div>
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<div class="">2) materials to be donated must be UNOPENED. Opened items cannot be used and will likely be discarded</div>
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<div class="">3) each building should “designate a secure single collection point”, let labs in the building and the EHS Associate Director Nick Paquin (<a href="mailto:npaquin@mit.edu" class="" style="color: purple;">npaquin@mit.edu</a>)<span class=""> know </span>about
this central location. </div>
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<div class="">4) materials for donation need to be sorted</div>
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<div class="">More detail on all of this is in the message below.</div>
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<div class="">I encourage everyone to donate any appropriate materials. <br class="">
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<div class="">Sincerely,</div>
<div class="">Alan</div>
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Alan D. Grossman<br class="">
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</b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Communication for PPE donation</b><br class="">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear colleagues:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Local hospitals and medical centers currently have an acute need for Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), including surgical masks, face shields, N95s, sanitizer, gloves, safety gowns, and transport media. These hospitals
are desperate for any of these supplies, and are actively reaching out for our assistance in getting through this time of great need.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">MIT is collecting all such extra<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class=""><span style="color: red;" class="">unopened</span></b><span style="color: red;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>PPE
for rapid donation. Each DLC should designate a secure single collection point (e.g., a lockable room) and inform your laboratories and EHS Associate Director Nick Paquin (<a href="mailto:npaquin@mit.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">npaquin@mit.edu</a>)<b class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>about
this central location. Please enable laboratories who have excess PPE inventory to sort items into broad categories, e.g., specify large boxes to contain like items (N95, masks, gloves, etc.) without mixing one type with other types.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Each laboratory should assess its own needs and retain what is needed to safely complete approved laboratory maintenance and COVID-related research</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">. If no
one in a laboratory is planning to be on campus, please do not come in just for this purpose.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">We will coordinate pick up of these items and will determine how to distribute the items in a fair and equitable fashion, based on need and service area. If you are asked for donations going forward or have already received
such requests but not addressed them, please forward your requests to <b class=""><a href="mailto:donate-ppe@mit.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">donate-ppe@mit.edu</a></b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">How to donate extra, unopened items (see list below):</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Each DLC<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">designate a secure single collection</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>point (e.g., a lockable room); inform your lab staff of the location<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Email the location to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Nick Paquin</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:npaquin@mit.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">npaquin@mit.edu</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Sort items</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>into broad categories that contain like items (N95, masks, gloves, etc.); do not mix items.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Email<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">questions and pick-up requests</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:donate-ppe@mit.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">donate-ppe@mit.edu</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">If you are asked for donations:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>please email<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class=""><a href="mailto:donate-ppe@mit.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">donate-ppe@mit.edu</a></b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Facemasks:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>N-95, clinical, surgical, other<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Powered air-purifying respirators</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Cleaning wipes with bleach</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Swabs:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> Dacron, rayon, or nylon swabs<o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
<b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Culture media:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>UTM (Universal Transport Media), COPAN Swab Transport System, Starplex Multitrans System, VCM (viral
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