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This working group is focused on discussions about innovations.

The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about innovations.

Members

Kathy Gilbeaux mdmcdonald Miles Marcotte WDS1200-Columbus

Email address for group

innovations-us@m.resiliencesystem.org

COvid detection and prevention device developments

A decade ago, when the firefighter John Burke earned his master’s degree in health care emergency management, he wrote his thesis on pandemic planning. So when the coronavirus hit last spring, Mr. Burke, now the fire chief in Sandwich, Mass., was ready.

“I had my playbook ready to go,” Mr. Burke said.

Testing for the virus was a top priority, so he connected with a private laboratory to ensure that his firefighters, who were transporting coronavirus patients to hospitals, could be regularly tested.

And then he heard that Thermo Fisher Scientific, a Massachusetts company that makes laboratory equipment and materials, was beta testing an air sampler that could help him detect airborne coronavirus particles.

By December, he had installed one in a fire station hallway. The device, about the size of a toaster oven, sucked in ambient air and trapped airborne virus particles — if there were any to be found — in a specialized cartridge. Each afternoon, an employee would remove the cartridge and walk it to the UPS drop box across the street, sending it off for laboratory analysis.

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Improvised vacinating effort, pharmacist goes to senior housing facilities.

 

In a city scrambling to vaccinate people against Covid-19 as quickly as possible, Ambar Keluskar faced a problem this month that seemed to defy logic: Mr. Keluskar, a pharmacist in Brooklyn, struggled to find people to take the 200 doses he had on hand.

“They were just sitting in the freezer,” he said.

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A new service attempts to help people get vaccinated

In the hustle to score an elusive vaccine appointment, the leftover dose has become the stuff of pandemic lore.

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Food inovation: Lab-grown cultured chicken meat

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How to Fight Climate Change Without Fighting Capitalism

           

Solar Impulse, the first solar-powered plane to circumnavigate the globe.

qz.com - by Bertrand Piccard - August 26, 2019

 . . . qualitative growth. It means you create jobs, you make money, and you make a profit for everyone by replacing the outdated and polluting systems that destroy the planet with clean, modern, and efficient systems that protect the environment . . .

 . . . The Solar Impulse Foundation was launched, with the challenge to identify 1,000 solutions that can protect the environment in a profitable way . . . 

 . . . Nearly 2,000 companies have joined up and are starting to pitch solutions.

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