Covid-19
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Engineer creates robot to help healthcare workers provide remote care for their patients
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-08 20:21
Anthony James Bautista, engineer and assistant professor at the University of Santo Tomas (UST), created a robot to help medical professionals take care of their patients while minimizing direct contact, reducing the risk of infection. The device was ...
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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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Radio show promotes public awareness about Covid-19
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-19 10:15
Mikado FM is a radio station from Mali, promoted by the United Nations, which seeks to consolidate peace, harmony and coexistence in the country. With the onset of the COvid-19 pandemic in the country, the radio wanted to provide an important public ...
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Designers create project to take information about Covid-19 to remote populations
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-16 10:40
Catalina Lotero and Felipe Guarin are designers and founders of the Whatever Works design studio. During the Covid-19 pandemic, when the first cases of infection outside China started arising, they decided they should “do something to design solutions for ...
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Students create program to help the elderly socialize during the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-27 18:23
During the Covid-19 pandemic, residents of nursing homes or assisted-living facilities could no longer receive visitations form their loves-ones, a measure put in place to protect them from being infected by the new coronavirus. To help combat the ...
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Roomates create conversation guide to help people discuss safety measures during the pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2021-01-21 22:11
Lisa Gluckstein and Divya Gopal are two roommates living in San Francisco. When the Covid-19 pandemic arrived in the United States, the two friends decided that, as roommates, they needed to have “an honest conversation about what living together ...
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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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Young man launches radio station to help his village cope with the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-08 19:02
Saidingliana Sailo is 27 year old who lives in the small village of Behliangchhip, India. When a man from his village tested positive for Covid-19, in the beginning of July 2020, the village became very agitated with the news. “When the news of him ...
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Virtual Reality video teaches medical professionals the best practices in treating Covid-19 patients
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-31 18:42
Kevin Ching, a physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital, was working with Covid-19 patients during the pandemic and realized it was very important to share the hands-on knowledge they had acquired to other medical workers. He had the idea of creating a ...
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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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