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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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• Team creates platform to connect healthcare workers in need with volunteers

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-05-07 10:56

  

  A multidisciplinary group of volunteers built HospitalHero, a platform to connect healthcare workers in need of meals, supplies or anything else with volunteers able to help. Through the website, healthcare workers can request help and volunteers can ...

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• Designers create cardboard mask with replaceable filter

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-29 11:28

  

  Designers from Russia have developed a protective face mask that can be constructed out of cardboard and fitted with interchangeable filters. The product is called the BUMASK and has a very simple design, consisting of a foldable pattern that can be ...

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• Writer shares lockdown stories and raises money for charities

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-28 11:41

  

  Meg Zukin, in a tweet, asked the internet for relationship drama during the COVID-19 pandemic to document under the lockdown. People can submit stories anonymously and readers were initially asked to donate $1 to see the posts that were collated on a ...

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• Teacher and student create podcast for people to share their coronavirus stories

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-30 15:10

  

  Aimee Coelho teaches Media Studies at Millfield School. During class, before the school closed during the country’s lockdown, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Aimee challenged student Charlie Kilner to take part in a new project. Together, they created ...

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• Student creates movement to encourage patients and healthcare workers fighting Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-02 11:10

  

  In 2018, Gina was diagnosed with acanthamoeba keratitis and had to be in quarantine for a month. During that time, she says: “I experienced an incredible amount of loneliness and anxiety, and so it meant the world to me whenever I received a get-well-soon ...

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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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• Citizens create platform to support healthcare workers

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-31 12:55

  

  Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare workers all over the world where working their hardest and making personal sacrifices in order to fight this disease. Many of these professionals had to leave their homes to temporarily relocate to areas where they ...

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• Support Network created to help high risk demographics during Covid19 outbreak

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-17 17:09

  

  SOS Vizinho is a Portuguese project that has gathered more than 70 specialists in the effort to create a support network for risk groups currently in social isolation. The project was created after Henrique Paranhos shared this ideia on his social media ...

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• Website offers free tools to prevent burnout of people working from home during the pandemic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-12-16 14:19

  

  Due to the Covid-19, many people all around the world had to adjust to a new reality of working from home. Working Den was created to help remote workers create a healthier, motivating and sustainable work environment. The website offers a range of free ...

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