Arlington County Government, VA COVID-19, 18 Feb 2021

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From YouTube: Arlington County's COVID-19 Logistics & Distribution Warehouse

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A look behind the scenes at Arlington County's on-going effort to support the staff and residents in the battle against COVID-19. www.arlingtonva.us/covid-19/

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19 warehouse for arlington county um over the last 10 months, we've been operating out of various warehouses and just recently we brought all supplies into this one warehouse and everything is consolidated under one roof. At one point, we were under 40 gowns in the county. We have thousands upon thousands of gowns now and we are sufficiently stocked with enough gowns to be able to work this operation safely for our employees.

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If they are running short, we will then get the supplies out to them in this room. We have you know, paper, towels, trash bags, bubble, wrap table, covers and even tissues over in this room. We have lighting, we have hand carts. All of this type equipment is needed at different vaccine sites, coolers ice packs, privacy screens, air purifiers and air filters.

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When we get requests for different vaccine sites, everything is compiled and brought to a staging area where it is then placed on the truck and deployed out to the location.

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We also are heavily involved in what we consider pop-up sites, pop-up test sites, wheelchairs, cots and stretchers signage and traffic cones and different types of pillars that we need to. In order to help us direct traffic or or control, the traffic flow.

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Office supplies, you need those clipboards, you need those pens, you need the paper hand, sanitizer spray bottles, disinfectant wipes. We have a couple hundred thousand band-aids a couple hundred thousand sterile alcohol, prep wipes hundreds of thousands of cotton balls.

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When, when you get a vaccine, you get they put a band-aid on your arm after you get that shot that band-aid comes from us. um They wipe your arm down before you get it that that wipe comes from us when you're lining up, there's, there's, stanchions and and and rope um to keep everyone in line all that support those supplies come from us. um So there's there's a lot more going on than the shot itself. When you go in to get your vaccine and that all comes from the county's logistics operation.

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Whether we have another spike and we need additional supplies for our employees, we have those supplies in hand.

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If it's for the vaccine, we are prepared to support the vaccine as it rolls out and continues during the next several months or even year, and it's going to be a successful operation due to the hard work of the men and women that are part of this section.