[labnetwork] Transfer your Cleanroom gloves for Health care workers

[Sandrine Martin]

Hello Gary and everybody

For us, here is what we heard back:
- earloop face masks worked but not the type that ties behind the head
- our swabs did not work. I didn’t have complete specs for all of the
models we have so maybe there is still hope there.
- tyvek gowns were accepted
- IPA (100%) worked
- the face shields (for wet bench work) and safety glasses that we had in
stock worked for them.

Thanks
---
Sandrine Martin

On Mar 21, 2020, at 19:56, Spinner, Gary <gary.spinner at ien.gatech.edu>
wrote:

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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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 <
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*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!

---
Sandrine Martin

On Mar 21, 2020, at 15:03, Albert William (Bill) Flounders <
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>
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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