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• Website designed to help children learn and cope with Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-05 10:45

  

  Portuguese publishing company “Ideias com História”, launched the CoronaKids website with several resources designed to teach children and young teenagers about the new coronavirus and the Covid-19 pandemic. The website received the support of the ...

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• High School student develops leading website for coronavirus information

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-04 15:14

  

  Avi Schiffman, a junior at Mercer Island High School, was concern about the spread od misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic. So, in January 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, he started developing a website that gathered updated ...

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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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• Tool to help identify sources of misinformation and fake news about Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-17 14:50

  

  In times of crisis, especially when it comes to healthcare and public health, it is very important to stop the spread of false information. And that is what a company called NewsGuard is trying to do. At NewsGuard, a team of journalists verifies the ...

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• Team creates website to centralize travelling restriction imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-09-16 17:59

  

  A group of 4 researchers, who met as colleagues at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, developed Covid Controls, a website that helps people who need or want to travel during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mohit Shah, one of the developers, ...

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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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• 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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• Young graduates create platform to match Covid-19 patients with plasma donors

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-07 18:06

  

  Recent graduates Karina Thakrar and Dr. Neil Pinto have created PINT (Plasma In Need For Transfusion) Network – a website that is based on a matchmaking algorithm that, quickly and efficiently, matches plasma donors with Covid-19 patients in need. " ...

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• Protective Face Shield that can be built in less than a minute

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-02 13:09

  

  A team at NYU designed a face shield for healthcare workers that can be built in less than a minute. This design was created in response to the severe lack of protective equipment, necessary to face the COVID-19 pandemic, that was being reported by ...

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• Homemade face shield to fight the protective gears shortage

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-13 10:35

  

  Website shares instructions on how to make a face shield at home to use as last resort, when proper protective gears are not available. The materials needed are:- small plastic bucket with handle- clear plastic sheet- double-sided tape- flat elastic It ...

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