Amazon said on Tuesday that it is temporarily discontinuing accepting orders for “lower-priority” products in India and prioritizing servicing urgent items such as household staples, health care, and personal safety products as the e-commerce player — along with several of its competitors — grapples with coronavirus outbreak in one of its key overseas markets. From a report: “To serve our customers’…
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Hospitals Turn To Crowdsourcing and 3D Printing Amid Equipment Shortages
With medical supplies strained by the coronavirus outbreak, health care professionals and technologists are coming together online to crowdsource repairs and supplies of critical hospital equipment. From a report: Doctors, hospital technicians and 3D-printing specialists are also using Google Docs, WhatsApp groups and online databases to trade tips for building, fixing and modifying machines like ventilators to help treat the rising…
More essential coronavirus links: March 17-23
A roundup of information from physicians, scientists and journalists. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/more-essential-coronavirus-links-march-17-23…
Facebook Will Donate 720,000 Masks and 1.5 Million Gloves to Healthcare Workers
The San Francisco Chronicle reports: Facebook plans to donate 720,000 masks — a combination of the coveted N95 respirators and more basic surgical masks — and 1.5 million pairs of gloves to health care workers around the world. Facebook officials said they bought the masks for their offices’ emergency disaster kits following wildfires in California. Facebook has already donated 375,000 masks…
Health care workers brace for coronavirus in the US
Rapidly changing guidelines and equipment shortages are a concern in U.S. hospitals and clinics. Source: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-preparations-healthcare-workers.html
Social distancing: What it is and why it’s the best tool to fight coronavirus
With no vaccines or treatments, the fight against coronavirus comes down to this behavioral technique. A physician explains how it works. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/what-is-social-distancing-coronavirus-covid19…
New coronavirus may spread as an airborne aerosol, like SARS
However, it’s unlikely that the virus would spread in this way beyond health care settings. Source: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-can-spread-as-an-aerosol.html
The Rich Are Preparing for Coronavirus Differently
The new coronavirus knows no national borders or social boundaries. That doesn’t mean that social boundaries don’t exist. An anonymous reader shares a report: “En route to Paris,” Gwyneth Paltrow wrote on Instagram last week, beneath a shot of herself on an airplane heading to Paris Fashion Week and wearing a black face mask. “I’ve already been in this movie,” she…
6 ways the US government could help contain the new coronavirus
Here are six ways the U.S. government and health care system could fight back against the coronavirus. Source: https://www.livescience.com/contain-coronavirus-spread-in-us.html
Are US communities and hospitals ready to take on COVID-19?
An outbreak of COVID-19 in the U.S. seems inevitable. How will local governments and health care facilities respond? Source: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-outbreak-us-what-to-expect.html