Covid-19
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Movement provides tablets for hospitalized patients to communicate with their families
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-27 18:14
To combat the isolation of hospitalized patients, unable to receive visitors during the Covid-19 pandemic, a movement in Portugal was created to provide the patients with a means of communicating with their loved-ones. The movement aims to donate 2500 ...
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Friends launch platform for people to send masks to healthcare workers
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-03 14:44
Liz Klinger and Chloe Alpert knew that healthcare services all over the world where experiencing severe shortage of protective equipment, indispensable during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chloe is the CEO of a company which manages hospital’s medical equipment ...
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Elementary School students organize graduation ceremony inside a videogame
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-07 18:02
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, schools around the world were forced to close and many students did not have the opportunity to attend the traditional graduation ceremonies. But a group of 8 students from an elementary school in Japan were determined not to ...
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Mother writes book to explain the coronavirus to her children
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-29 12:25
Maria Gouveia has always tried to explain the world to her daughters in ways they could understand. So, during the Covid-19 pandemic, she wrote a story about the new coronavirus for her two daughters, 11 and 2 years old. The book was written especially ...
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Mother shares solution to help her autistic son wear a face mask
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-13 18:32
Following the health and safety measures recommended during the Covid-19 pandemic was a challenge to some people, especially those dealing with disabilities or difficult health condition. That was the case of Christina Farley’s son, Zachary, who is ...
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Physicists at CERN develop High Energy Ventilator
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-09 16:54
Physicists from the LHCb collaborations at CERN are developing a stripped-down ventilator, built with cheap and simple components. The device is called High Energy Ventilator (HEV) and it is based on the same type of systems used at CERN to regulate gas ...
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Community mask designed for men with beards
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-26 17:23
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of masks was becoming widespread, with the World Health Organization and most national health authorities recommending citizens to wear facial coverings to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. However, standard face ...
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Team creates Chatbot that automatically answers questions about the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 16:05
SUVE is a chatbot created to automatically answer people’s questions about the coronavirus pandemic, in real time. It was created by the eeBot team, during the “Hack the Crisis” hackathon, organized in March 2020 by Garage48 and Accelerate Estonia. The ...
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Initiative creates open source protective equipment made out of recycled plastic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-07 17:42
Groups of makers around the World came together during the Covid-19 pandemic to produce protective equipment to tackle the overall shortage of these essential materials. One such group, called Precious Plastic, started doing the same but with a focus on ...
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Researches develop system to improve intubations procedures of Covid-19 patients
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-16 09:18
Researchers from the Federal University of São Carlos (Universidade Federal de São Carlos – USFCar), have created a system to improve the intubation procedure of patients with Covid-19. In a typical intubation procedure, a tube is connected to a ...
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