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  • Homewood company converts backpack operation to produce medical face shields

    April 03, 2020 |

    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Day Owl is a Pittsburgh company known for producing sustainably-sourced backpacks, but in response to the pandemic they have shifted gears to producing medical-grade masks for health care workers. They began shipping out the masks in early April and expect to produce between 1,000 to 2,000 masks a day. The company is working with the support of local foundations and has already received orders from Highmark for 30,000 face shields.

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  • One City Is Paying Restaurants to Make Meals for Homeless Shelters Audio icon

    April 02, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Social distancing has negatively affected homeless shelters, because the volunteers who prepare the meals aren't considered essential employees. The city of Cambridge pledged to pay local restaurants to provide bagged or boxed meals for lunch and dinner at shelters for as long as social distancing guidelines remain in place. This also helps restaurants who are struggling without customers. The operation started in March of 2020 and has since distributed 1,800 meals to eight homeless shelters and meal programs. Other cities like Detroit and Portland are following their lead.

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  • USC community uses 3D printing to combat medical equipment shortage during COVID-19 pandemic

    April 01, 2020 |

    USC Annenberg Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Hospitals throughout the United States are facing a shortage of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic, but communities are trying to help fill the gap. One solution being piloted at universities such as USC is the use of 3D printers to create 3D-printed masks as back-ups at healthcare facilities.

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  • California's Streamlined SNAP App Pivots to Meet COVID-19 Demand

    April 01, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A state’s digital portals can be ways to reach residents’ needs as well as collect data on the real-time effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In California, the state’s SNAP assistance tool, GetCalFresh, emerged as a vital resources in the COVID-19 pandemic. Code for America originally developed the app to simplify access to federal supplemental nutritional assistance programs and is now relaying the needs of citizens as well as providing additional data on economic trends during the crisis.

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  • Covid-19 Changed How the World Does Science, Together

    April 01, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    While most other scientific research around the world has come to a halt, coronavirus research is flourishing as a global collaboration of scientists focuses on understanding the virus and finding a vaccine. Competition among scientists and countries is still fervent, but information is being shared across labs and borders more urgently and quickly than before.

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  • Mt. Sinai Health launches coronavirus app to track outbreak across the New York City

    April 01, 2020 |

    CNBC |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    To better trace the spread of coronavirus, Singapore and China have been using apps that collect data about citizens' whereabouts and let people know if they've potentially been in contact with someone who has been diagnosed with the virus. Now, similar apps are being piloted in New York and Massachusettes in an attempt to better "understand more about the clinical course of the disease."

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  • Zimbabwe's universities are manufacturing masks, gloves and hand sanitizers to beat coronavirus

    April 01, 2020 |

    Quartz Africa |

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    To combat the shortage of personal protective equipment amid the coronavirus pandemic, the government in Zimbabwe is asking universities "with engineering and technology capacity," to help with production. The universities are able to make up to 2,000 protective masks per day as well as manufacture hand sanitizer that meet the standards set forth by the World Health Organization.

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  • Technology To Clean And Reuse PPE Is Being Deployed To Hotspot Hospitals

    March 30, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    As the fight against COVID-19 continues, Ohio-based Battelle labs has created the Critical Care Decontamination System that can clean as many as 80,000 of personal protective equipment at once. The system, which was fast-tracked by the FDA for approval, is modular and scalable, so it can be shipped to locations around the country.

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  • FDA grants emergency authorization to system that decontaminates N95 respirator masks for re-use

    March 30, 2020 |

    TechCrunch |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    In an effort to fill the deficit of face masks for healthcare workers, the Food and Drug Administration gave emergency authorization to development and lab management company Battelle to sanitize used masks for reuse. Their system decontaminates N95 respirator masks using concentrated hydrogen peroxide and can turn single-use respirators into masks that can be used up to 20 times. The system is underway in their Ohio facility and is producing up to 80,000 masks per day.

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  • Food waste and food insecurity rising amid coronavirus panic

    March 30, 2020 |

    National Geographic |

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    With restaurants closing and people panic-buying groceries, food waste is inevitably going to rise. There are many initiatives going on throughout the United States to address this very issue. For example, nonprofit Rethink in New York City pays restaurant staff to create meals out of the surplus ingredients that other restaurants have, which are then sold to the public with a $3 donation. For individuals, there are even ways to shift your behavior with preserving and consuming the food you buy that will allow them to last longer and be eaten in entirety.

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