[labnetwork] Transfer your Cleanroom gloves for Health care workers

[Spinner, Gary]

Hi Sandrine,

Can you please share with the group what supplies worked? I am sure we all are using similar laboratory supplies. If the supplies have already been vetted, this could reduce the amount of time it takes to determine supplies that are suitable for medical applications. We have just received a request for garments, facemasks, gloves, and bouffant caps.

Thanks,



Gary Spinner - Sr. Asst. Dir-Research Ops
The Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech
345 Ferst Drive, Atlanta GA, 30332
404.385.5252 | spinner at gatech.edu


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From: labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu <labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu> on behalf of Sandrine Martin <sandrine at umich.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2020 4:30 PM
To: Albert William (Bill) Flounders <bill_flounders at berkeley.edu>
Cc: labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu <labnetwork at mtl.mit.edu>; Daniel Christensen <dcchrist at wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [labnetwork] Transfer your Cleanroom gloves for Health care workers

All

We did the same at U Michigan and indeed it took a lot of back and forth to translate nanofab characteristics into medical characteristics. We had to go back to manufacturers specs/data sheets. Some things worked and done didn’t....

Good luck to everybody!

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Sandrine Martin

On Mar 21, 2020, at 15:03, Albert William (Bill) Flounders <bill_flounders at berkeley.edu<mailto:bill_flounders at berkeley.edu>> wrote:

Dan et al.,
We have also made an inventory of all our PPE and provided it to the campus
health care center for evaluation. We will make available any items they deem useful.

I offer a note of caution. Evaluate your clean room suits with care; check the spec sheet.
Our disposable clean room suits are a breathable material that is not designed to provide
protection against pathogens or toxic particulates. It is important that the specifications
are known and evaluated. We do not want to transfer items that provide any false sense of security.

Bill Flounders
UC Berkeley NanoLab



On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 9:03 AM Daniel Christensen <dcchrist at wisc.edu<mailto:dcchrist at wisc.edu>> wrote:

Dear Labnetwork Community,



In these trying times there are things we can do to help.  I contacted my EHS people to let them know about the inventory of cleanroom gloves that I have on hand.  They just informed me that they will be coming on Tuesday to get these gloves and transport them to the health care workers on the front lines of COVID-19.  So the 30,000 individual gloves that I have stocked will be moving on to the local Hospitals.



I am happy to know that we could do something to help.  If you have large inventories of gloves, please consider you community needs.



Thanks, and stay safe.



Dan C



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