Human Factors

The emergence and spread of infectious diseases, like COVID-19, are on the rise. Can you identify patterns between population density and COVID-19 cases and identify factors that could help predict hotspots of disease spread?

Betelgeuse Project

Summary

The Beteugelse project consists in a product that creates an antimicrobial layer to help the population resolve partially the spread of infectious diseases, in order to reduce contagion and make people healthier, being extremely useful in pandemic epicenters like Brazil today. It is basically a product created from biosynthesis linked to silver nitrate and can be applied to the clothes making them an antibacterial shield and can also be used on astronaut clothes with a contamination risk

How We Addressed This Challenge

The project is bold and innovative, aiming to prevent the spread of virus and bacteria through contact, since the product in question creates an antimicrobial layer that breaks the virus membrane and kills it, reducing the risk of contact with an infectious disease. Microbes, viruses and bacteria are in the air and can be carried inside your home, posing a health risk to you and your family, because they are stuck on you and your clothes. Our idea is to create a product that serves as an antibacterial shield that do not allow your clothes to be contaminated and thus avoid the contagion and spread of diseases, being very useful for public health.

How We Developed This Project

The project was developed in a brainstorm, in which we seek alternatives to improve the quality of life and reduce the risk of infectious diseases, inspired by large epicenters unable to deal with diseases that cause major pandemics without strong social isolation. The use of data from the Center Geospatial Resources COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Global Viewer from NASA SEDAC was very useful in the development of the project. The biggest problems encountered were the search for chemical process material for the development of the final product.

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#econimicimpact #prevention #publichealth