Version 1
: Received: 23 March 2020 / Approved: 24 March 2020 / Online: 24 March 2020 (14:46:29 CET)
How to cite:
Maia Chagas, A.; Molloy, J.; Prieto Godino, L.; Baden, T. Leveraging Open Hardware to Alleviate the Burden of COVID-19 on Global Health Systems. Preprints2020, 2020030362. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0362.v1
Maia Chagas, A.; Molloy, J.; Prieto Godino, L.; Baden, T. Leveraging Open Hardware to Alleviate the Burden of COVID-19 on Global Health Systems. Preprints 2020, 2020030362. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0362.v1
Maia Chagas, A.; Molloy, J.; Prieto Godino, L.; Baden, T. Leveraging Open Hardware to Alleviate the Burden of COVID-19 on Global Health Systems. Preprints2020, 2020030362. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0362.v1
APA Style
Maia Chagas, A., Molloy, J., Prieto Godino, L., & Baden, T. (2020). Leveraging Open Hardware to Alleviate the Burden of COVID-19 on Global Health Systems. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0362.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Maia Chagas, A., Lucia Prieto Godino and Tom Baden. 2020 "Leveraging Open Hardware to Alleviate the Burden of COVID-19 on Global Health Systems" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0362.v1
Abstract
With the current rapid spread of COVID-19, global health systems are increasingly overburdened by the sheer number of people that need diagnosis, isolation and treatment. Shortcomings are evident across the board, from staffing, facilities for rapid and reliable testing to availability of hospital beds and key medical-grade equipment. The scale and breadth of the problem calls for an equally substantive response not only from frontline workers such as medical staff and scientists, but from skilled members of the public who have the time, facilities and knowledge to meaningfully contribute to a consolidated global response. Here, we summarise community-driven approaches based on Free and Open Source scientific and medical Hardware (FOSH) currently being developed and deployed to bolster access to personal protective equipment (PPE), patient treatment and diagnostics.
Keywords
Free and Open Source Hardware; COVID-19; pandemic
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Virology
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Received:
28 March 2020
Commenter:
Yousser Mohammad
The commenter has declared there is no conflict of interests.
Comment:
Very promising and it is what we need globally.
I think you should share it with WHO Corona team, As GARD - WHO membre it should be possible. WHO in developing countries is leading in helping health ministries at country and régional levels
Commenter: Yousser Mohammad
The commenter has declared there is no conflict of interests.
I think you should share it with WHO Corona team, As GARD - WHO membre it should be possible. WHO in developing countries is leading in helping health ministries at country and régional levels