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• Psychotherapists create card set to help people cope with the Covid-19 pandemic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-05 18:41

  

  Due to the unprecedented challenges humanity was facing, brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, many people were feeling their mental health deteriorating. To help people navigate these feeling, Dr. Michael Bohne and Dr. Sabine Ebersberger, two experienced ...

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• Startup launches free app to help monitor the health of nursing home residents

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-29 21:55

  

  To help nursing homes and assisted care facilities monitor their residents, one of the most vulnerable groups affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, Portuguese company Create IT launched a new, free platform call “+Próximo” (“Closer”, in English”). The app ...

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• Crowdsourcing initiative to find a drug against Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-13 19:39

  

  Scientist and expert from all over the world have come together in the Covid Moonshot project, to develop a compound to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In January 2020, scientist from China determined the structure of an enzime in the virus, essential for the ...

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• Robot to help hospitalized patients keep in touch with their loved ones

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-02 22:17

  

  Patients who were hospitalized during the Covid-19 pandemic were not allowed to receive visits from their loved-ones, in order to prevent the spread of the virus. However, to make sure the patients could still keep in touch with their family and friends, ...

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• Youth Group creates public hands-free handwashing system

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-26 16:12

  

  Members of the CII-Young Indians from Chennai worked together with two other association to launch the Sugadharam project, to provide the Chennai population with safe stations where people can sanitize their hands. The idea came as a result of the ...

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• Volunteers create platform to provide scientific information to doctors

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-05 10:37

  

  A group of volunteers in Portugal launched the ICAM-COVID19 project, to provide scientific information to doctors about the new coronavirus and its associated disease. The project was initiated by Alexandre Teixeira, a final year medical student at ...

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• Students develop game to raise awareness about social distancing measures

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-04 11:20

  

  Members of a game development university students’ club, called “GameDev Técnico”, from Instituto Superior Técnico, designed a new computer game to raise awareness about the importance of good social distancing practices during the Covid-19 pandemic. The ...

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• Hospital creates coloring book to help children cope with the COVID-19 pandemic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-03 12:58

  

  The staff at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital released two books designed to help children understand and cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The first is a 10-page coloring book for small children, featuring a cartoon coronavirus and simple information ...

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• Team develops 150$ ventilator that is the size of a cereal box

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-31 11:30

  

  A team at the University of Minnesota is working on a simple and inexpensive mechanical ventilator that is the size of a cereal box – the Coventor. The objective is that the device can be produced quickly and “allows those patients who would otherwise not ...

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• Cross-disciplinary team develops inexpensive alternative to ventilators

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-30 10:52

  

  A volunteer team called MIT E-Vent, composed of engineers, physicians, computer scientists and others, is working to develop a safe and inexpensive alternative to ventilators, for emergency use. About a decade ago, some students from the Medical Device ...

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