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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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• Mother designs protective dividers to keep children safe in their classrooms

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-04 18:39

  

  Louise Stephenson was worried about the prospect of her son going back to school, as school re-open after the easing of lockdown measures put in place due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Her main concern was how Harry, a 11-year-old, would be able to stay safe ...

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• Company releases designs for posters to display information about Covid-19 procedures

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-20 16:17

  

  Amidst the Covi-19 pandemic, society citizens had to adjust to life during the pandemic. With countries going over the peak of the disease’s spread and slowly lifting lockdown restrictions, life was slowing getting back to normal, but under the paradigm ...

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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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• Movement provides tablets for hospitalized patients to communicate with their families

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-27 18:14

  

  To combat the isolation of hospitalized patients, unable to receive visitors during the Covid-19 pandemic, a movement in Portugal was created to provide the patients with a means of communicating with their loved-ones. The movement aims to donate 2500 ...

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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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