Leaders Call for Donations of Supplies to Fight COVID-19

Leading Massachusetts life sciences and healthcare organization executives Robert Coughlin (MassBio), Steve Walsh (Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association), Brian Johnson (Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council) and Patricia McMullin (Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals) have joined together to make the following appeal to the area’s life sciences and healthcare organizations:

As the leading life sciences and healthcare organizations in the world, it is incumbent upon all of us to do everything we can to address the COVID-19 pandemic and aid the first responders and healthcare providers who are putting their health on the line every day to help patients. To that end, we’re launching the Massachusetts Life Sciences Emergency Supply Hub to help coordinate efforts to try and bring additional supplies and resources to our state’s healthcare institutions so they can continue to test and treat patients with COVID-19.

We’re asking every life sciences and healthcare organization to consider how they may be able to help, specifically in donating lab, testing, and diagnostics supplies, personal protection equipment (PPE), and medical and scientific expertise needed to combat COVID-19.  See full list below and please fill out the following survey to let us know what you can donate: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TVP69NJ

Healthcare providers may send requests for supplies or expertise by emailing supplyhub@massbio.org and we will share this information with the state’s Department of Public Health, who is coordinating and triaging all requests for supplies. We will also use this information to help inform what types of supplies we will request from our membership.

With all this information centralized, state government will be able to more efficiently match requests with available supplies. This is in no way meant to replace the current structure the state has in place for resource requests from healthcare institutions to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health but is meant to augment it.

Please join us in helping to ensure healthcare institutions across the Commonwealth have what they need to continue this fight. (Source: MassBio Website, 18 March, 2020)

List of Supplies & Expertise Needed

Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)

• Surgical/procedure masks
• N95/N99 masks (respirators)
• Face masks with integrated shield
• PAPRs
• Goggles
• Gloves
• Protective suits/gowns
• Booties / shoe covers
• Head covers
• Hand sanitizer
• Sanitizing wipes

Hospital Supplies

• Ventilators, PEEP
• Stretchers/beds
• Hospital gowns
• Endotracheal tubes
• Vital sign monitors
• Thermometers

Lab Supplies

• UVT 3ML with flocked flex minitip
• 1.5ml swab microtiped flocked
• 6in swab Darcon
• Medium 2% FBS STD REFEED ML
• Sample collection supplies (sterile swabs, tubes, media)
• MicroAmp™ Optical 384-Well Reaction Plate with Barcode
• MicroAmp™ Fast Optical 96-Well Reaction Plate 0.1mL
• RNAse Away 6-pack
• RNeasy Mini Kit
• TaqMan™ Fast Advanced Master Mix
• BD Universal Viral Transport for Viruses, Chlamydiae, Mycoplasmas, and Ureaplasmas
• 0.2 mL PCR 8-tube Strip with Indiv. Attached Dome Caps
• QIAamp MinElute Virus Spin Kit
• Viral RNA Isolation Kits
• QIAamp® Viral RNA Mini Kits
• QIAamp® MinElute Virus Spin Kit or RNeasy® Mini Kits (QIAGEN
• EZ1 DSP Virus Kits (QIAGEN)

Diagnostics Supplies and Instruments

• Roche MagNA Pure Compact RNA Isolation Kits
• Roche MagNA Pure Compact Nucleic Acid Isolation Kits
• Roche MagNA Pure 96 DNA and Viral NA Small Volume Kits
• Roche MagNA Pure systems
• Roche 480Z
• ABI 7500DX
• Qiagen EZ1 Advanced XL
• QIAcube/QIAcube Connect
• cobas omni Wash Reagent 6997503190
• cobas omni Lysis Reagent  6997538190
• cobas omni MGP Reagent 6997546190
• cobas omni Specimen Diluent 6997511190
• cobas NHP Negative Control Kit 7002220190
• cobas omni Pipette Tips 5534925001
• cobas omni Processing Plate 5534917001
• cobas omni Amplification Plate 5534941001
• 6800 biohazard bags 7435967001

Professional Resources

• Lab Tech
• Registered Nurse
• Physician/Medical Doctor
• Pharmacist