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Group of volunteers works to bring groceries and supplies to high-risk demographics during Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-25 10:52
Invisible Hands Deliver was born when college students amassed 1,700 healthy volunteers to deliver groceries and medicines to the Covid-19 high-risk people in New York City. The focus is mostly the elderly and immunocompromised people but also all others ...
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Platform provides custom face masks to healthcare workers
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 15:49
During the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare services all over the world were experiencing shortages of Personal Protective Equipment. Jesse Chang, a 3D industry expert, “was very concerned with the shortage and how dire the situation was to have forced ...
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Tool to help identify sources of misinformation and fake news about Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-17 14:50
In times of crisis, especially when it comes to healthcare and public health, it is very important to stop the spread of false information. And that is what a company called NewsGuard is trying to do. At NewsGuard, a team of journalists verifies the ...
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Support Network created to help high risk demographics during Covid19 outbreak
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-17 17:09
SOS Vizinho is a Portuguese project that has gathered more than 70 specialists in the effort to create a support network for risk groups currently in social isolation. The project was created after Henrique Paranhos shared this ideia on his social media ...
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Solidarity movement turns caravans into resting places for healthcare workers
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2021-01-25 17:50
In Portugal, at the beginning of 2021, the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic put tremendous pressure on the hospitals and healthcare services. Hospitals were exceeding their capacity, healthcare professionals were overworked and lacking appropriate ...
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High School student develops leading website for coronavirus information
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-04 15:14
Avi Schiffman, a junior at Mercer Island High School, was concern about the spread od misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic. So, in January 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, he started developing a website that gathered updated ...
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Former colleagues get together to build platform to track missing data about Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-31 12:01
Alexis Madrigal and Robinson Meyer, two journalists at The Atlantic, were concerned about the lack of data available about the situation on the coronavirus pandemic in the USA. They felt they had to do something to help people understand what was actually ...
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Collaborative project fights against misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2021-01-21 22:14
Along with the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world also had to deal with the spread of misinformation about the disease. In fact, the problem gain such a huge proportion that the World health Organization classified the spread of false information ...
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Facebook group keeps people with disabilities connected during the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-13 18:23
Many severely disabled people rely on the help of other to perform their daily life activities. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the population being advised to stay home and practice social distancing, people with disabilities had to face the ...
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Platform lets isolated seniors read bedtime stories to children during the pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-07 17:45
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many seniors living in nursing homes or assisted care facilities were feeling alone and isolated. Likewise, having to stay at home was also being very challenging for children. The Goodnight Zoom platform was created to ...
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