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CM: Before the pandemic I was still in the Materials Management and Environmental Services Department, and I was a supply technician, and I was new to this section. I was previously workingat working at the Building 10 [Clinical Center] self-service store so I was still new to everything before the pandemic hit.

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CM: Well, what happens is because we are the supply inventory crew up here for CCE, when we have supplies that come in, we check them in. We put them on quarantine and once we put them on quarantine, the information goes to our QA [Quality Assurance] department and our QA department goes over everything and makes sure they have all the proper paperwork. And then once it's released,then  then we're able to distribute it to different labs that we have here under CCE.

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CM: Well, I mean it's a whole process because starting out in the hallway we have these blue little sticky mats that we have to tap our feet on—tap, tap, tap—when you go in and you tap, tap, tap again. Thenyou Then you go to the sink and then you have to scrub, wash your hands, and then you have to go onto another sticky mat. And then we have these machines, well, these little things called the “booty butlers” where you stick your feet in them, and then you tap, tap again. And you go inside this small little room called the gowning room and then you just, one by one, you gown up. [There’s] certain things you got to do, like you got to put your boots on first, your mask on, and your gloves on—your one set of gloves first—and then you just gown up and then you get ready to go inside the lab.

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ML: Oh my gosh, it's—that's a process! So somebody can't just say, "Oh, I need a box of pipettes," and you [take it in].

CM:  It's a real process. Now pipettes and stuff, inside of the 3T lab we have a supply room where the techs can go into that supply room that we supply all the supplies for them. They can go in there and get what they need. But another lab we have, they have this room called the Window Room, where we don't go all the way inside of their lab;  we just make sure that their supply room has all the supplies. So if I’m a tech going into this lab called 2J,  I wipe everything down. I put [the supplies] in the window and the person on the other side, which is inside the clean part of the lab, they'll take it out.  

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