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• Group of volunteers works to bring groceries and supplies to high-risk demographics during Covid-19 pandemic

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-03-25 10:52

  

  Invisible Hands Deliver was born when college students amassed 1,700 healthy volunteers to deliver groceries and medicines to the Covid-19 high-risk people in New York City. The focus is mostly the elderly and immunocompromised people but also all others ...

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• Institutions create an open and free dataset for scientists fighting Covid19

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-13 10:39

  

  Covid19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) is an online free and open resource for the global researchers’ community. It was born with the idea of helping researchers in the fight against Covid19. CORD-19 combines more than 29,000 academic articles on ...

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• Researchers create Artificial Intelligence models to detect Covid-19 from X-Rays

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-25 15:31

  

  Researchers from the University of Waterloo Vision and Image Processing Lab and the startup DarwinAI partnered to create COVID-Net- a convolutional neural network for COVID-19 detection from chest radiographies. They started working on this project with ...

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• Teacher designs ear guards to relieve pain from wearing face masks

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-08 12:21

  

  Craig Wiles, Head of Design and Technology at Strathallan School, heard that healthcare workers were suffering from pain and blisters cause by wearing face masks for extended periods of time. “I knew there must be something we could do to help.” So, he ...

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• Engineers design an automated bag valve mask to tackle the shortage of ventilators due to Covid19

  Solution Shared by sara.di.fabio@patient-innovation.com on 2020-04-02 09:57

  

  Dr Matthew Wettergreen and his team at the Rice Univeristy, in Texas, designed an automated bag valve mask in less than two weeks to tackle the needs emerging because of the Covid19 pandemic. This automated bag valve mask device is meant to take less ...

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• Solidarity movement turns caravans into resting places for healthcare workers

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2021-01-25 17:50

  

  In Portugal, at the beginning of 2021, the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic put tremendous pressure on the hospitals and healthcare services. Hospitals were exceeding their capacity, healthcare professionals were overworked and lacking appropriate ...

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• Friends develop Classroom Spacing Calculator to keep students safe in school

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-08 19:10

  

  To help maintain social distancing measures and keep students safe at school, Rita Rain and Bogna Haponiuk have developed a Classroom Spacing Calculator. According to guidelines emitted by the CDC, students should be kept 6 feet (1,80 meters) apart. Using ...

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• Researchers share software that helps healthcare facilities manage PPE stock

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-26 17:37

  

  A team of researchers from ICMC-USP (Mathematical Science and Computation Institute from São Paulo University) have created a software that helps hospitals and other medical facilities manage their protective equipment stock. Personal protective equipment ...

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• Platform to help the population deal with mental health issues during the pandemic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-23 12:42

  

  The Covid-19 pandemic brought with it several unprecedented challenges, that have an impact on people’s overall mental health status. From the healthcare professionals working hard to fight this pandemic, to the people suffering from the effects of social ...

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• Indian scientists create platform to deal with Covid-19

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-14 10:51

  

  In India, a group of scientist joined forces to help the country fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The group counts with more than 500 scientists, from the country’s top institutions and internationally, and includes also engineers, doctors, science ...

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