List of PPE Resources
Please find below a comprehensive list of PPE resources including (click to jump to section):
General Resources
Massachusetts PPE Coordination Effort: Collaborative Resource
Massachusetts hospital donation information, PPE buyers, PPE vendors, and business outreach as a collaborative resource. With the goal of decreasing duplication of efforts.
PPE Burn Rate Calculator
http://www.ppeburnratecalc.com/
National Organizations
GetusPPE
Working to build a national, centralized platform to enable communities to get PPE to healthcare providers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
MedSupplyDrive
Organizing a national volunteer system for mobilizing supplies and getting them to hospitals. Started by Georgetown University Medical Students.
https://www.medicalsupplydrive.com/
Boston Contacts MedSupplyDrive:
h.b.lead@gmail.com and jaegyeong.lee@simmons.edu
Mission for Masks
Group that is faciliating donations from an importing company that is bringing in a million masks and other PPE equipment per week.
Contact: missionformasks@gmail.com
artners in Health StopCOVID
Donate or buy PPE: LINK
GetPPE
Get PPE’s mission is to connect the requests from those in need with the helpers who have the equipment, skills, and materials to offset that gap.
Donate PPE
Helping to facilitate donations throughout the US.
Students4COVID
Working to create database for various vendors and suppliers can use.
Contact: students4covid@gmail.com
Wuhan Task Force
Coverage in:
Health4theWorld
Project to create an international database of PPE suppliers. founder, Dr. Bhavya Rehani
Contact: francis.wright@ucsf.edu
Face2Face
GogglesforDocs
Massachusetts Organizations
Massachusetts PPE Coordination Effort
MEMA COVID-19 Donation and Procurement Program
If there is PPE that you or businesses in your district would like to donate to front-line workers, MEMA is asking donation.
Contact: donationsdeskmema@gmail.com; 508-820-2074
Donation: https://www.mass.gov/forms/covid-19-donation-program
Procurement: https://www.mass.gov/forms/covid-19-procurement-program
HMS PPE Shortage Initiative
[https://covidstudentresponse.org/campaigns/ppe/
Students vs. Pandemics
Harvard Kennedy School working to address PPE needs, among other COVID-19 efforts.
PPE Contact: kiwiflorido@g.harvard.edu
Mask Transit (NY and Boston)
Mask Transit is a medical student and volunteer run organization started in New York City and Boston. Our goal is to mobilize masks to our most vulnerable community members, who are at the highest risk of acquiring COVID-19. Boston has not yet reached its peak , so we hope that by getting these masks out as fast as we can, we can help in flattening the curve. Our hope is that these masks will serve as valuable tools in decreasing the number of new infections while simultaneously decreasing the burden on the healthcare system.
Contact: masktransit@gmail.com
GoFundMe at: gf.me/u/xwkryw
Sign up: https://tinyurl.com/t8xys2q.
City of Boston’s COVID-19 PPE Donation form
https://www.bostoncares.org/bostoncovid19volunteers
Contact: volunteer@bphc.org
HBS COVID 19 Group
https://www.communityvs.org/mbas
Add a project: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vlVqp1KDAnrOw5INJEzqADRJrM0RXuzkJ66KJ5b5tRw/edit?usp=sharing
Contact: Sarika Mendu: smendu@mba2020.hbs.edu Amina Edwards: aedwards@mba2020.hbs.edu
BUSM PPE Collection
BIDMC requesting Ipad Donations
If you would like do donate, we are currently accepting: New or Used iPads: Size: iPad mini devices or larger, Operating System: iOS 9.0 or later, Any accompanying protective cases are appreciated, Unfortunately we cannot accept Androids or Kindles Before donation, the device should be cleaned, reset (click here for instructions), and placed in a zip lock bag if possible with a viable power chord. Please make sure it is accompanied with the original donor's contact information (phone number and home address). Donations can be dropped off in the lobby of Deac 301A between 7a-4p, Monday-Friday, now through April 30th. They can also be mailed to: Attn: Tyler Trahan, Internal Medicine Residency, Deaconess 311, 330 Brookline Ave, Boson, MA 02215. Contact: 313-539-3309.
Corona Virus Project
On this website hospital and direct care centers can post needs they have for supplies, resources and labor that can be done at home.
Advocacy Efforts
Move On Petition
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/covid19-we-need-more-personal-protective-equipment
Get Me PPE
MA HHS Request for Masks
https://tinyurl.com/massletter
PPE for All
PPE Mandate Letter to DPH and HHS
Contact: Yisi_Ji@hms.harvard.edu
Articles
NEJM: Critical Supply Shortages - Need for PPE
Ariadne Labs: Conserving Personal Protective Equipment
Fast Company Article: The Untold Story of the N95 Mask
Mask Innovation
List of biotech companies producing PPE found under PPE vendors tab
Mass General Brigham Center for COVID Innovation
Partners Face Shield Pilot Study: shyu@partners.org
Isinova
Italian method for using a commercial scuba mask with 3D-printed connectors (.stl, .dwg, .step download for free on website) to create CPAP/ventilator masks for patients. Designed to be connected to a CPAP machine or ventilator.
https://www.isinnova.it/easy-covid19-eng/
MIT Emergency ventilator project
CoVent-19 Challenge (Ventilator Creation)
An open innovation effort to design a rapidly deployable mechanical ventilator with the ultimate goal of flattening the curve. Looking for engineers, elevators, designers, and those with business expertise looking to become involved.
https://www.coventchallenge.com/
3D Corps
A group adapting scuba masks with filters to be reusable via bleach.