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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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High School student develops leading website for coronavirus information
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-05-04 15:14
Avi Schiffman, a junior at Mercer Island High School, was concern about the spread od misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic. So, in January 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, he started developing a website that gathered updated ...
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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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Team develops 150$ ventilator that is the size of a cereal box
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-03-31 11:30
A team at the University of Minnesota is working on a simple and inexpensive mechanical ventilator that is the size of a cereal box – the Coventor. The objective is that the device can be produced quickly and “allows those patients who would otherwise not ...
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Inventor creates COVID Emergency Ventilator in just three days
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-02 12:16
Rhys Thomas, a consultant anaesthetist at Glangwili General Hospital, was “desperately concerned about the lack of intensive care unit (ICU) ventilators to deal with the inevitable pandemic“. He contacted a local engineering company and, in just three ...
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Volunteers in Portugal create app that tells you the size of supermarket queues
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-04-14 12:17
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many grocery shops and supermarkets had to impose restrictions on the number of clients inside the shop. So, long queues where forming outside the shops, of people waiting their turn to go inside. To minimize this situation, ...
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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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Collaborative project fights against misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic
Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2021-01-21 22:14
Along with the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world also had to deal with the spread of misinformation about the disease. In fact, the problem gain such a huge proportion that the World health Organization classified the spread of false information ...
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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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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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