COVID-19
Air Blockchain: This App Could Help The Airline Industry Recover Faster
The aviation industry has weathered severe turbulence before — consider the oil crises in the 1970s and 9/11 — but the COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted damage of a different magnitude.
Innovation
Numbers Crunchers: How Supercomputers Are Fast-Tracking Innovation In Aviation, Manufacturing and Medicine
Doctors, nurses and other essential workers have been playing a key part in the battle against the coronavirus epidemic. But computer scientists are also pitching in.
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В первые дни, когда эпидемия коронавируса только обрушилась на США, Кэролайн Шоу не испытывала особого беспокойства. Менеджер по закупкам на заводе по производству ветрогенераторов GE Renewable Energy в городе Пенсакола (штат Флорида), она не могла даже предположить, что новая болезнь столь круто изменит ее профессиональную жизнь. Между тем, произошло непредвиденное. На фоне быстро разгорающейся пандемии ей вместе с несколькими другими коллегами было поручено предпринять меры для предотвращения распространения инфекции на заводе.
COVID-19
Traveling Solo: The Pandemic Sent This Field Technician On A 5,000-Mile Road Trip
French Canadian Frederic Nyeto always dreamed of driving across the U.S. from coast to coast. He finally got his chance in March, but not in the way he had envisioned. Instead of leisurely days of driving, eating in small-town diners and visiting landmarks like Mount Rushmore, Nyeto was on a one-man mission to perform vital maintenance on circuit breakers at power plants in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19
5 Ways The World Fought Back
A recent graduate “upcycled” his gown into personal protective equipment for healthcare workers (and inspired others to do the same), researchers found an antibody from a 2003 SARS patient that could be effective against the new coronavirus, and a team of MIT economists crunched the historical numbers and came up with some encouraging results on vaccine development. Read on for more promising news in the fight against COVID-19.
COVID-19
5 Ways The World Fought Back
Supercomputers are speeding the process of drug discovery, mixed-reality headsets are enabling medical teams to safely examine COVID-19 patients, and new studies have shed light into the immune system’s response to the novel coronavirus. Here’s some hopeful news from the week in medicine.
COVID-19
A Second Act: This Team Breathes New Life Into Ventilators For COVID-19 Front Line
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a global race for mechanical ventilators, the machines that may help some of the most critical patients breathe. Manufacturers have boosted production, and countries put in bumper orders for ventilators, which support respiration when the lungs aren’t up to the task.
COVID-19
A Mask In 15 Minutes: How An Engineer’s 3D-Printed Design For COVID-19 Protection Went Viral
Mark Fuller didn’t set out to fight the pandemic. In mid-March, he went shopping to get a respirator mask to complete a woodworking project when he noticed that none of the stores near his Cincinnati home had any of the usual gear — gloves, goggles or masks. Then he went online and saw that the masks he usually buys for 50 cents were going for $30.
Fuller decided he could do better.
COVID-19
Think Inside The Box: This Parisian Hospital Has A Dedicated CT Cabin For Its COVID-19 Patients
A prefabricated cabin has sprung up just outside the entrance of the giant Henri-Mondor hospital in Créteil, a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris. The unassuming module might look like a trailer home or the temporary office for a construction project, but it’s actually a vital outpost in the hospital’s battle against COVID-19.
COVID-19
5 Ways The World Fought Back
Real dogs are being trained to sniff out COVID-19 infection, robotic dogs are enforcing social distancing requirements, and a new coronavirus test based on the gene-editing technology CRISPR has been approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Here’s our weekly roundup of encouraging news from the fight against the coronavirus.