PPE Request

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACTTo meet the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) requested and received an administrative supplement to NIAID grant U19AI118608 "Ontogeny of Human Vaccine Responses" to fundthe Immunophenotyping Assessment in a COVID-19 Cohort (IMPACC) Clinical and Data Coordinating Center(CDCC). The IMPACC study is an observational cohort collecting detailed clinical, laboratory, and radiographicdata in coordination with biologic sampling of blood and respiratory secretions and viral shedding in nasalsecretions in order to identify immunophenotypic and genomic features of COVID-19-related susceptibilityand/or progression in order to generate hypotheses for effective host-directed therapeutic interventions, to helpto prioritize proposals for such interventions, and/or optimize timing for administration of host-responsedirected therapeutics.Many sites in the IMPACC study lacked sufficient PPE to protect all study site staff interacting with hospitalizedCOVID-19 patients. Therefore, the IMPACC CDCC sought additional resources to distribute to the participatingsites. RhoFED responded to this need by procuring the necessary additional PPE, which consisted of masks,masks with eye shields, gowns, gloves, and face shields.