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Sixth grader develops game to help kids deal with stress caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-26 17:06
Sixth grader Israel Smith was feeling the emotional and psychological impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. And he assumed that any other kids were feeling the same, having to deal with the constant stream of bad news, as well as the fact that schools were ...
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Scientists launch an app to study the pandemic outbreak
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-10 12:35
UC San Francisco physician-scientists launched a new initiative, the COVID-19 Citizen Science (CCS) to allow adults in the world to become citizen-scientists, with the aim of better understanding the pandemic outbreak. US San Francisco researchers ...
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Student creates movement to encourage patients and healthcare workers fighting Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-02 11:10
In 2018, Gina was diagnosed with acanthamoeba keratitis and had to be in quarantine for a month. During that time, she says: “I experienced an incredible amount of loneliness and anxiety, and so it meant the world to me whenever I received a get-well-soon ...
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Healthcare workers wear smiling photos of themselves to ease patients with Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-14 10:36
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, thousands of infected patients were being hospitalized throughout the world. And they were being treated by healthcare workers wearing full protective gear, including masks, protective shields and hoods. And not being able to ...
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Teacher and student create podcast for people to share their coronavirus stories
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-30 15:10
Aimee Coelho teaches Media Studies at Millfield School. During class, before the school closed during the country’s lockdown, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Aimee challenged student Charlie Kilner to take part in a new project. Together, they created ...
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Documentary shows the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare professionals
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-26 16:42
The creators behind Auctus Productions have released a short-documentary about Covid-19, that can be watched in full, for free, on Youtube. The documentary is titled “Frontliners – The Impact of Covid-19 on Healthcare Professionals” and it captures first ...
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Mother converts breast pumps into emergency ventilators
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-08 20:12
During the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare services all over the world were facing severe shortages of ventilators necessary to treat patients with Covid-19. Knowing about this problem, Brandi Gerstner, an engineer at the University of Maryland, wondered if ...
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Students develop smart dustbin for contactless waste disposal
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-04 18:42
A team of students at Lovely Professional University developed a contactless dustbin for healthcare services called “Ally”. The motivation to develop this device was the create specialized equipment to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in ...
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Researchers are designing a new smart testing device for Covid19
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-03 16:14
A team of UK scientists from three universities are developing a new smart testing device for Covid19. The device incorporates artificial intelligence, image processing, and molecular virology and allows to detect the virus in 30 minutes using a ...
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Inventor creates emergency ventilator to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-15 09:53
In Kashmir, a region that’s located between India and Pakistan, reports stated that there were little more than 100 ventilators available to provide for a population of 12,5 million people. Knowing about his situation, 22-year-old inventor Waseem Ahmad ...
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