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• Inventor creates foot-operated door pedal to help contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-16 10:30

  

  During the Covid-19 pandemic, engineer and inventor Michael Aiken developed the “Anti-covid-19 Door Opener” that allows people to open doors by using their feet. According to the project’s page on the Instructables website, the innovator states that “The ...

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• Self-taught engineer creates a tractor-mounted sanitation sprayer to prevent the spread of Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-16 10:27

  

  Rajendra Jadhav was worried about the spread spread Covid-19 pandemic. When the first cases were reported in his district of residence, he felt he had to do something to prevent the virus from reaching his village. Jadhav is a self-taught engineer, having ...

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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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• Researchers develop open source personal respirator for healthcare workers fighting Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-09-16 17:46

  

  A team at the University of Southampton, led by professors Paul Elkington and Hywel Morgan, have developed an innovative device to provide protection for healthcare workers in the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic. “It is really important to minimise ...

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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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• Teachers turn prep school’s lab into Covid-19 testing center

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-04 13:22

  

  Dr. Elizabeth Forrester and Dr. Dawn Richards, faculty members at Baylor School, knew they could use their expertise and resources to help in the testing efforts for Covid-19. Both are PhD research scientists with access to the university level science ...

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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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• Families lifted in cranes to see their loved ones in nursing homes

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-29 12:24

  

  Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, nursing homes all over the world had to forbid visitations from the resident’s loved ones, causing a sense of loneliness and isolation. At the same time, many business also had to be shut down during the pandemic, due to the ...

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