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  • ‘We're Doing What We Can': How a Makeshift Network Is Filling in the Gaps with Medical Supplies

    March 27, 2020 |

    Route Fifty |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    To address a shortage of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic, community members have begun to take on the task of producing face masks for medical professionals. From sewing masks to creating face shields with a 3D printer at a local library, communities are organizing and organizations are partnering to, at least temporarily, solve the problem.

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  • Makers are rushing to fight coronavirus with 3D printed face shields and test swabs

    March 27, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    Across the country, 3D manufacturers sprang into action in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to create a medical supply chain to fill gaps in hospitals' access to needed products like face shields and nasal swabs. Through networking and crowdsourcing, small manufacturers with 3D printers linked with shipping and product assembly teams that formed to meet the emergency need. The focus was on products that did not need elaborate testing to be proven safe and effective.

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  • Zoom Shabbat, drive-through confessional: Faith during coronavirus

    March 27, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Chelmsford, Massachusetts

    Many religious institutions have to come up with creative ways to "congregate" amidst the coronavirus breakout and strict quarantine restrictions around the country. From drive-through confession to virtual Shabbat, congregations find a way to practice their faith, despite questions about the morality of practicing without an in-person community.

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  • How South Korea flattened the curve

    March 27, 2020 |

    Prospect |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    The South Korean mantra "bbali-bbali" or "fast, fast" helps to describe the country's response to the coronavirus. The government quickly enacted technology and disinfectant methods to address the public health threat.

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  • Metro Detroit's yoga community finds breathing space online during COVID-19

    March 26, 2020 |

    Metromode |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Gyms nationwide have had to close due to the spread of COVID-19, but a yoga studio in Metro Detroit is turning to technology to help deliver classes to the community. With the practice of yoga is associated with stress management, studio owners utilizing virtual options such as Facebook Live, Zoom, and YouTube in order to help their clientele cope.

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  • Mutual aid is making a comeback during COVID-19 outbreak

    March 26, 2020 |

    Metromode |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Mutual aid at the grassroots level is about helping a neighbor in need, and this strategy has been spurred into action across the country in response to COVID-19. In Detroit, people rally across social media and technology to connect those in need with those looking to help. For those without social media, mutual aid forms are available online for residents to apply for help from community members in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, and more. They provide services such as picking up groceries and medicine, childcare, or monetary donations.

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  • How robots helped protect doctors from coronavirus

    March 26, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: China, Hubei Province

    To keep the doctor-patient contact at a minimum during the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals in China and Thailand are using human-like robots to perform basic medical tasks. The use of robots doesn't just help to keep doctors safer, it also helps to relieve them of their overburdened workload.

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  • Engineers Made a DIY Face Shield. Now It's Helping Doctors

    March 26, 2020 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    A group of engineers in Madison, Wisconsin designed a face shield using materials and machines that were capable of producing mass quantities of the shields for hospitals. The design is now open-source and accessible to anyone on the web. They have since sent more than 1,000 face shields to the local hospital, and Ford has even picked up the design, pledging to produce more than 75,000 shields to be sent to hospitals in Detroit.

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  • Telehealth therapy sessions available for more people; one center says some people won't have to pay

    March 26, 2020 |

    KPRC-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    One positive side effect of the encouraged social distancing due to the novel coronavirus outbreak is the shift to telemedicine, specifically the chance to have therapy sessions over phone and video calls. At one health center in the Houston area, about 90% of its typically 2,000 weekly appointments have made the transition to online.

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  • ‘COVID-19 Clearinghouse': Project N95 is matching hospitals with PPE suppliers

    March 26, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    Dozens of tech-focused volunteers have come together to create Project N95, a personal protective equipment clearinghouse meant to connect health institutions in need of equipment like masks with suppliers around the world. This central marketplace aims to bridge the two parties in a single place along an otherwise complex supply chain.

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