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• Computing power devoted to finding treatments for Covid-19

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-30 11:47

  

  Folding@home is a project that borrows your PC’s unused computing power to research treatments for the coronavirus. The system in place thanks to Folding@home has more computing power than the top 100 supercomputers combined. It is capable of calculating ...

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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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• Students create game to teach about correct use of protective equipment

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-02 15:52

  

  A group of college students from Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, created “EPIs contra o COVID-19” (PPE against COVID-19) an online quiz that is meant to help people understand how to correctly wear personal protective equipment. The quiz is ...

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• Crowdsourcing platform to track symptoms of the population in the USA

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-14 11:28

  

  A group of epidemiologists and software developers at Harvard, Boston Children's Hospital got together with other volunteers and developed Covid Near You- a platform that uses crowdsourced data to map the symptoms of the population. The objective is ...

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• Former colleagues get together to build platform to track missing data about Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-31 12:01

  

  Alexis Madrigal and Robinson Meyer, two journalists at The Atlantic, were concerned about the lack of data available about the situation on the coronavirus pandemic in the USA. They felt they had to do something to help people understand what was actually ...

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• Game teaches players how to identify misinformation about Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2021-01-29 18:26

  

  The UK government has partnered with the University of Cambridge’s Social Decision-Making Lab and the Dutch media agency Drog to design a game that teaches people how to recognize fake news about the Covid-19 pandemic. The game teaches players about the ...

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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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• Platform provides custom face masks to healthcare workers

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-15 15:49

  

  During the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare services all over the world were experiencing shortages of Personal Protective Equipment. Jesse Chang, a 3D industry expert, “was very concerned with the shortage and how dire the situation was to have forced ...

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• Students provide free childcare to healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-03 13:46

  

  Sruthi Shankar and Sara Lederman, medical students at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities School of Medicine, knew that a lot of healthcare professionals, working hard to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, where worried about care for their children after ...

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• African startup launches a challenge to data scientists to stop the spread of Covid19

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-14 10:36

  

  The crowd solving startup called Zindi, established in South Africa in 2018, has been building a database of data scientists across Africa. Zindi’s aim is to aggregate pressing private or public-sector challenges and match the solution seekers to problem ...

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