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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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• Startup launches free app to help monitor the health of nursing home residents

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-29 21:55

  

  To help nursing homes and assisted care facilities monitor their residents, one of the most vulnerable groups affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, Portuguese company Create IT launched a new, free platform call “+Próximo” (“Closer”, in English”). The app ...

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• Documentary shows the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare professionals

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-26 16:42

  

  The creators behind Auctus Productions have released a short-documentary about Covid-19, that can be watched in full, for free, on Youtube. The documentary is titled “Frontliners – The Impact of Covid-19 on Healthcare Professionals” and it captures first ...

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• Company releases plans for hood that protects doctors when intubating Covid-19 patients

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-25 13:47

  

  Akaer is a Brazilian company that develops high tech solutions for Aerospace and Defense Markets. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, they felt the need to use their expertise and resources to contribute in some way to the fight against the virus. ...

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• High School students create intubation box to protect doctors

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-07 11:55

  

  High School students from The Village School are trying to do their part and contribute to find solutions to help in the fight against the new coronavirus. Knowing about the shortage of protective equipment in healthcare facilities, they have created a ...

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• University creates masks made from materials available in hospitals

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-23 12:34

  

  Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare facilities all over the world were experiencing severe shortages of medical and protective equipment. To tackle this problem, a team from the Department of anesthesiology at the University of Florida Health ...

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• Facebook group keeps people with disabilities connected during the Covid-19 pandemic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-13 18:23

  

  Many severely disabled people rely on the help of other to perform their daily life activities. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, with the population being advised to stay home and practice social distancing, people with disabilities had to face the ...

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• Professor creates computer game to teach children the importance of social distancing

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-05 18:25

  

  While going for a walk during the Covid-19 pandemic, Professor Richard Wiseman felt as though he was living in a computer game "having to avoid joggers and cyclists etc", to keep the recommended social distance. From his background in Psychology ...

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