Coronavirus
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Health
Health USADoctors Can Now Sterilize and Reuse Face Masks in Time of Shortage
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals are facing critical shortages of N95 face masks. But research and clinical teams have found a way to decontaminate and reuse the masks, using already-existing vaporized hydrogen peroxide.
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Society
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Health GermanyIn Corona Times, Refugees in Germany Find a Purpose – Even Without Work Permits
Due to an expected shortage of medical staff in Germany as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, the nation is looking to its migrant and refugee communities – including those normally not permitted to work – for help.
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Society
Society United KingdomEnglish Teacher’s Online Lessons Are so Good, She Now Has 28,000 Students (and Counting….)
Teacher Holly King-Mand had quit her job at a school in England’s Bedforshire after becoming a mom to her second daughter. When the coronavirus epidemic came, she went on Facebook - just to help out pupils with home schooling.
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Health SenegalWest Africa Learned the Hard Way, but Health Systems Are Prepared for Coronavirus
West African countries set up health systems in remote areas after learning from the impacts of the Ebola outbreak. Now, these systems are helping community workers detect and prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, say health experts.
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Technology
Technology United KingdomTech Giant to Make 15,000 Ventilators for Coronavirus Patients Instead of Vacuum Cleaners
In response to the ventilator shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic, a tech company specializing in vacuums and hair dryers is refocusing their resources to produce 10,000 ventilators for the United Kingdom – while donating 5,000 more for the world!
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Society
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Society
Society GermanyGermany Takes in Corona Patients to Relieve Italy’s Overloaded Hospitals
In a first for Italy, critically ill patients are being transferred from the nation’s overcrowded hospitals to a neighboring country: Germany is offering Italians the assistance they need while its own hospitals have enough space to accommodate COVID-19 victims.
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