Social distancing

Covid-19: Teleperformance is Mobilized to Fully Protect Its Employees Thanks to Work-at-home Solutions and Strict Compliance With Hygiene and Social Distancing Rules

Retrieved on: 
Monday, April 27, 2020
Articles, Contents, Global health, Teleperformance, Social distancing, World Health Organization, Health, Hygiene

Working from home has been one of Teleperformance's main responses to overcoming the global health crisis due to Covid-19.

Key Points: 
  • Working from home has been one of Teleperformance's main responses to overcoming the global health crisis due to Covid-19.
  • This crisis has significantly disrupted economic activity worldwide and has led governments to implement strict health measures, including compliance with hygiene standards and social distancing rules as well as lockdowns to protect the public.
  • The Group has ordered nearly seven million masks for on-site employees worldwide, nearly half of which have been delivered to date.
  • Teleperformance Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Daniel Julien said: The whole world is engaged in a historic fight against this terrible pandemic.

Blackline Safety Adds Industrial Contact Tracing Capability to Its Intrinsically Safe Cloud-Connected Wearables

Retrieved on: 
Monday, April 27, 2020
Software, Technology, Data management, Security, Health, Medical specialties, Medicine, BlackLine, Contact tracing, Social distancing

Most industrial businesses cannot allow employees to take smartphones onto worksites due to their lack of intrinsic safety certification, leaving a contact tracing gap.

Key Points: 
  • Most industrial businesses cannot allow employees to take smartphones onto worksites due to their lack of intrinsic safety certification, leaving a contact tracing gap.
  • Blacklines industrial contact tracing makes it easy to proactively monitor a business social distancing effectiveness and trace person-to-person contacts if an employee tests positive.
  • Blackline has launched its new Close Contact report, immediately available to all current and future customers in its cloud-hosted Blackline Analytics software.
  • About Blackline Safety: Blackline Safety is a global connected safety leader that helps to ensure every worker gets their job done and returns home safe each day.

NoviSign Releases New Stop & Go Social Distancing Signage to Combat COVID-19

Retrieved on: 
Friday, April 24, 2020
Land transport, Transport, Signage, Digital media, Digital signage, Video, Road safety, Social distancing, Traffic

A new solution to help stores enforce social distancing is NoviSign's new Stop & Go digital signage.

Key Points: 
  • A new solution to help stores enforce social distancing is NoviSign's new Stop & Go digital signage.
  • These barriers can be used to control the store's traffic, helping public venues adhere to local social distancing regulations.
  • So how exactly does the 'Stop & Go' social distancing signage work?
  • Since 2011, NoviSign has been an industry leader of full-spectrum digital signage solutions.

New Model Shows Competing Influences of Social Distancing, Population Density & Temperature on Local COVID-19 Transmission

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, April 23, 2020
Metaphors, Modeling and simulation, Medical specialties, Epidemics, Epidemiology, Quarantine, Social distancing, Conceptual model, Forecasting, Macroeconomic model

"Complementary to other national models, our data differ in that they illustrate the situation in our own backyards.

Key Points: 
  • "Complementary to other national models, our data differ in that they illustrate the situation in our own backyards.
  • The model, known as COVID-Lab: Mapping COVID-19 in Your Community, represents 58% of the total U.S. population and includes data from every state.
  • For social distancing, which the model identified as the most important factor in reducing transmission, the researchers used cell phone movement data.
  • The model currently forecasts until early August the effects of relaxing social distancing policies so that we are halfway back to normal activity starting May 15.

Ride Sharing Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis 2019-2025: COVID-19 Impact Assessment

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Transport, Sustainable transport, Medical specialties, Medicine, Epidemics, Epidemiology, Quarantine, Social distancing, Demand, Carpool

DUBLIN, April 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Impact of COVID-19 on the Global Ride Sharing Market" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • DUBLIN, April 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Impact of COVID-19 on the Global Ride Sharing Market" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • However, after the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing and staying home is further expected to affect the ride sharing industry.
  • Various ride sharing providers and drivers are facing a loss of income as a result of reducing demand for ride shares during the COVID-19 quarantine period.
  • Therefore, these suspensions of ride sharing services further impact the revenue generation of the company that further affect market growth.

AiRISTA Flow Unveils Social Distancing and Contact Tracing Solution for the Workplace

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Health, Medical specialties, Medicine, Epidemics, Epidemiology, Quarantine, Social distancing, Workplace, Contact tracing, Distancing

SPARKS, Md., April 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- AiRISTA Flow has developed a Social Distancing and Contact Tracing Solution designed for the workplace.

Key Points: 
  • SPARKS, Md., April 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- AiRISTA Flow has developed a Social Distancing and Contact Tracing Solution designed for the workplace.
  • With this solution, employers have a tool to help return people to the workplace safely where interactions are unavoidable.
  • The AiRISTA Flow Social Distancing and Contact Tracing Solution uses a wireless device worn by employees to help enforce the CDC's COVID-19 guidelines for social distancing and automates contact tracing.
  • Tags communicate with the software platform using existing wireless infrastructure, employees' smart phones, or small gateways provided by AiRISTA Flow.

Draganfly’s ‘Pandemic Drone’ technology Conducts Initial Flights Near New York City to Detect COVID-19 Symptoms and Identify Social Distancing

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Emerging technologies, Articles, Avionics, Embedded systems, Robotics, Technology, Medical specialties, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Wireless, Social distancing, Drone

The technology can accurately detect infectious conditions from a distance of 190 feet as well as measure social distancing for proactive public safety practices.

Key Points: 
  • The technology can accurately detect infectious conditions from a distance of 190 feet as well as measure social distancing for proactive public safety practices.
  • The Westport Police Department launched its drone program in early 2016 under the guidance of the Departments Federal Aviation Administration-certified drone pilot, Captain Ryan Paulsson.
  • Captain Paulsson said, We are modeling the future of drone integration in public safety by utilizing Draganflys technology as first responders.
  • It is a founding member of theAustralian Technology Networkof universities and is the largest university in South Australia with approximately 32,000 students.

Perception Health Issues Projections of Coronavirus Cases, Deaths for All 50 States

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Articles, Health, Infectious diseases, Determinants of health, Prevention, Public health, Social determinants of health, Social inequality, Quarantine, Analytics, Social distancing

Each projection depicts a large gray area representing a state's possible maximum and minimum number of cases / deaths in the future.

Key Points: 
  • Each projection depicts a large gray area representing a state's possible maximum and minimum number of cases / deaths in the future.
  • View the projections and related information at: https://go.perceptionhealth.com/covid19
    "Models help us understand how different variables (population, density, demographics, social determinants of health, etc.)
  • can affect the results," says J. Tod Fetherling, CEO of Perception Health and an industry veteran in health data analytics.
  • The projections from Perception Health are based on previously reported cases, trending data, and estimates on the degree to which populations follow existing quarantine and social distancing recommendations.

Freshmen U™ Supports Social Distancing and Encourages College Students and Faculty to Maintain Current Social Connections Digitally - Augmented Reality App Designed Exclusively for Higher Learning Environments

Retrieved on: 
Monday, April 20, 2020
Articles, Medical specialties, Social networking service, Medicine, Social distancing, Motivation

Physical social distancing is important to help decrease the spread of COVID-19, but social connections are also a critical lifeline for students who are quarantined, perhaps for months.

Key Points: 
  • Physical social distancing is important to help decrease the spread of COVID-19, but social connections are also a critical lifeline for students who are quarantined, perhaps for months.
  • Freshmen Uis the perfect bridge between the need for students to be both safe and connected.
  • This motivates all students to both maintain current social connections while meeting new people.
  • Flying Eye Reality's flagship app, Spotselfie, is poised to redefine social networking on college campuses throughout the United States, and eventually: the world.

IHME to Hold Media Briefing at 4 PM (Eastern) Today (Details Below)

Retrieved on: 
Friday, April 17, 2020
Health, Articles, Infectious diseases, Global health, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Social distancing, Contact tracing, Isolation, Ihme, Distancing

Strategies for safely relaxing some social distancing include widely implemented testing, contact tracing and isolation of confirmed cases, and restricting large gatherings.

Key Points: 
  • Strategies for safely relaxing some social distancing include widely implemented testing, contact tracing and isolation of confirmed cases, and restricting large gatherings.
  • IHME also announced that the number of daily COVID-19 deaths in the US may have peaked two days ago, April 15, with2,481 deaths.
  • The peak does not include earlier presumptive cumulative COVID-19 deaths reported yesterday by New York City.
  • The Institute now is estimating60,308 (estimated range of 34,063 to 140,381)deaths across the US by August 4, down from 68,841 as predicted on April 13.