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• Consortium in Spain develops medically validated ventilator

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-23 12:28

  

  A group of Spanish organizations and Institutions got together in a consortium to work together to build an emergency ventilator, to overcome the equipment shortages caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The work is being developed by an alliance between ...

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• Inventor creates system that detects if people are wearing a mask

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2021-01-21 22:04

  

  During the Covid-19 pandemic, Rahul Khanna D (known as “the lonely programmer”) decided to use his skills as a Computer Vision Engineer to create a solution that would help fight the coronavirus. He created a system that is able to determine if a person ...

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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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• University community creates a network to connect institutions to volunteers and support the elderly during the pandemic

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-21 16:03

  

  COmVIDas was born thanks to Rita Almeida e Brito (fourth-year nursing student), in partnership with a medical student, Filipa Paiva Couceiro (ageing psychologist), and two communication specialists. COmVIDas aims at organizing a help network for ...

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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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• Architect designs cardboard beds to tackle the shortage of beds for patients with Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-15 09:48

  

  Rhea Shah, an architect living in Mumbai, realized that the country was experiencing a shortage of hospitals beds, in hospitals and quarantine centers, for patients with Covid-19. While quarantining in her family home, who run the Aryan Paper Mill, she ...

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• Free online Mental Health Kit helps people struggling with their mental health during the pandemic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-12-30 08:18

  

  The Portuguese citizen initiative for mental health – ManifestaMente – has released a free online kit designed to help people protect their mental health, identify trigger warnings and find solutions. The “Basic Mental Health Kit” consist of a 90 minute ...

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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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• Website to help break the habit of face touching

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-30 12:43

  

  Designers Mike Bodge and Isaac Blankensmith and technologist Brian Moore where trying to follow the health and safety measures suggested by the WHO to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, they were finding it difficult to avoid face ...

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• Students develop robots to spray disinfectant in large outdoor areas

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-26 10:58

  

  Abd Ali Atwi and Ali Hassan, two engineering students from Lebanon, teamed up to create robots that are able to disinfect large areas and, as such, help control the spread of the new coronavirus. The robots are equipped with a tank that holds up to 25 ...

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