Covid-19
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Community mask designed for men with beards
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-26 17:23
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of masks was becoming widespread, with the World Health Organization and most national health authorities recommending citizens to wear facial coverings to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. However, standard face ...
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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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Volunteers create platform to provide meals to people in need
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-04 18:32
A team of volunteers created OpenMeal, a platform that supports two vulnerable communities: restaurants struggling to keep their businesses open and families struggling to get food. The platform was developed during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the team of ...
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Families lifted in cranes to see their loved ones in nursing homes
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-29 12:24
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, nursing homes all over the world had to forbid visitations from the resident’s loved ones, causing a sense of loneliness and isolation. At the same time, many business also had to be shut down during the pandemic, due to the ...
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Researchers create drones to disinfect public spaces
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-08 20:16
A team of researchers from the Health Innovation via Engineering lab, at NUI Galway, have created an autonomous drone that uses ultraviolet light to strerilize surfaces. It is called the UVCDrone and was developed after the first surge of COVID-19 in ...
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Radio Shows turns seniors into DJs to keep them engaged during the pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-05 18:28
“Isolation is really a hard thing for seniors in the best of times. Now they can’t even get together and see each other for meals”, is how Mitch Bennet explains the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has on the elderly living in nursing homes and assisted care ...
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Neighborhoods organize teddy bear hunts to keep children entertained during the pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-08-13 18:40
Around the world, in countries experiencing lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, neighborhoods came up with a joint solution to help children cope with the isolation: giant teddy bear hunts. The initiative was inspired by the popular children’s book “We ...
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Robot to help hospitalized patients keep in touch with their loved ones
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-07-02 22:17
Patients who were hospitalized during the Covid-19 pandemic were not allowed to receive visits from their loved-ones, in order to prevent the spread of the virus. However, to make sure the patients could still keep in touch with their family and friends, ...
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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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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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