[bioundgrd] Communication for PPE donation

[Alan D Grossman]

Dear Colleagues,

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:

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.

2) materials to be donated must be UNOPENED.  Opened items cannot be used and will likely be discarded

3) each building should “designate a secure single collection point”, let labs in the building and the EHS Associate Director Nick Paquin (npaquin at mit.edu<mailto:npaquin at mit.edu>) know about this central location.

4) materials for donation need to be sorted

More detail on all of this is in the message below.

I encourage everyone to donate any appropriate materials.

Sincerely,
Alan


Alan D. Grossman
Professor and Head
Department of Biology
Building 68-530
M.I.T.
Cambridge, MA   02139

(617) 253-1515
adg at mit.edu<mailto:adg at mit.edu>





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From: Elazer R Edelman <ere at mit.edu<mailto:ere at mit.edu>>
Subject: Communication for PPE donation
Date: March 20, 2020 at 3:46:05 PM EDT
To: donate-ppe <donate-ppe at mit.edu<mailto:donate-ppe at mit.edu>>


Dear colleagues:

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.

MIT is collecting all such extra unopened 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 (npaquin at mit.edu<mailto:npaquin at mit.edu>) 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.

Each laboratory should assess its own needs and retain what is needed to safely complete approved laboratory maintenance and COVID-related research. If no one in a laboratory is planning to be on campus, please do not come in just for this purpose.

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 donate-ppe at mit.edu<mailto:donate-ppe at mit.edu>.

Sincerely,

Elazer Edelman
on behalf of MIT-medical outreach team

How to donate extra, unopened items (see list below):

  *   Each DLC designate a secure single collection point (e.g., a lockable room); inform your lab staff of the location
  *   Email the location to Nick Paquin npaquin at mit.edu<mailto:npaquin at mit.edu>
  *   Sort items into broad categories that contain like items (N95, masks, gloves, etc.); do not mix items.
  *   Email questions and pick-up requests to donate-ppe at mit.edu<mailto:donate-ppe at mit.edu>


If you are asked for donations: please email donate-ppe at mit.edu<mailto:donate-ppe at mit.edu>.

Items being collected:

  *   Facemasks: N-95, clinical, surgical, other
  *   Face Shields
  *   Gloves
  *   Powered air-purifying respirators
  *   Gowns
  *   Cleaning wipes with bleach
  *   Hand sanitizers
  *   Swabs:  Dacron, rayon, or nylon swabs
  *   Culture media: UTM (Universal Transport Media), COPAN Swab Transport System, Starplex Multitrans System, VCM (viral collection media)REMEL





Elazer R. Edelman

ere at mit.edu<mailto:ere at mit.edu>
(cell)  617.233.3054<tel:617.233.3054>

https://edelmanlab.mit.edu/elazer-edelman

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