As Covid-19 spread across the country, frontline health-care workers sounded the alarm that an inadequate supply of personal protective equipment, known as PPE, was putting their lives at risk.
In response, people on campuses headed to now-quiet labs, manufacturing shops, athletic-training facilities, art studios, theater departments, and libraries. At large universities and small colleges, they raided supply closets and emptied shelves.
A small crew of essential workers at the Georgia Institute of Technology pulled together 167,900 gloves, more than 3,700 surgical and N95 masks, 6,000 shoe covers, and thousands of other items like protective coveralls and cleaning supplies. Tufts University donated thousands of pieces of PPE and loaned ventilators from its veterinary school. Trinity Washington University also shared a ventilator, along with masks, goggles, gloves, gowns, and booties.
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