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News and perspectives from corporations working to directly impact the COVID-19 public health crisis. Content from this collection may include updates from medical supply or pharmaceutical companies, businesses that have pivoted their production to support the medical response to COVID-19 or hospitals that are navigating many secondary impacts of the pandemic (both economic and human).

How to Clean Xerox Printers and MFPs_Xerox

Xerox Print Devices Cleaning Guidance

By: Xerox
Source: Xerox
Date of Publication: May 1st, 2020
With public health concerns over the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 disease, also known as Coronavirus, Xerox is providing the following guidance to customers on how to effectively clean Xerox devices and maintain a healthy work environment.
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Cleaning
Electronics
Guidance
Precautions
Twitter strategy for combatting covid-19 misinformation

An update on our continuity strategy during COVID-19

By: Vijaya Gadde and Matt Derella
Source: Twitter
Date of Publication: March 16th, 2020
Twitter letter to customers and users regarding the company's service during coronavirus.
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Machine learning
Misinformation
Social media
Work from home (WFH)
Workplace response
Tempur Sealy plants join coronavirus relief efforts

Tempur Sealy plants join coronavirus relief efforts

By: David Perry
Source: Furniture Today
Date of Publication: March 31st, 2020
Tempur Sealy International said some of its plants are building mattresses and other products that will help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. And more plants will be joining the efforts in the coming weeks, officials said.
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Front line
Hospitals
Manufacturing
Mattresses
Johnson&Johnson_vaccine

Johnson & Johnson Announces a Lead Vaccine Candidate for COVID-19; Landmark New Partnership with U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; and Commitment to Supply One Billion Vaccines Worldwide for Emergency Pandemic Use

By: Johnson & Johnson
Source: Johnson & Johnson
Date of Publication: March 30th, 2020
Johnson & Johnson and BARDA Together Commit More than $1 Billion to Novel Coronavirus Vaccine Research and Development; Company Expects to Initiate Phase 1 Human Clinical Studies of Vaccine Candidate at Latest by September 2020. Johnson & Johnson Will Establish New U.S. Vaccine Manufacturing Capabilities and Additional Production Capacity Outside the U.S. to Begin Production at Risk to Help Ensure Global Vaccine Supply
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Clinical trials
Collaborations
Partnerships
Research
Vaccines
Inside the Extraordinary Race to Invent a Coronavirus Vaccine - Washington Post

Inside the Extraordinary Race to Invent a Coronavirus Vaccine

By: Carolyn Y. Johnson
Source: Washington Post
Date of Publication: May 3rd, 2020
Companies are launching trials at an unprecedented pace, but some worry about the trade-offs between speed and safety.
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Clinical trials
Collaborations
Research
Vaccines
Train car labeled COVID-19

Photo altered to show train car labeled COVID-19

By: Arijeta Lajka
Source: AP News
Date of Publication: March 21st, 2020
CLAIM: Train cars have been found in the U.S. marked with “COVID-19.” AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. A cropped photo circulating on social media showing a rail car marked with COVID-19, the name of the coronavirus disease spreading around the globe, was altered to include the marking.
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Altered
Fact-check
Misinformation
Railroads
Social media
Trains
Cleveland Clinic's Kudoboard Screenshots _ Kudoboard

Thank you, Cleveland Clinic caregivers

By: Cleveland Clinic
Source: Kudoboard
Date of Publication: April 1st, 2020
Cleveland Clinic introduced Kudoboard, a community platform to share stories and encouragement of hospital workers.
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Doctors
Heroes
Hospitals
Nurses
Thank yous
SAFE - Six Away From Everyone

SAFE - Six Away From Everyone

By: Cleveland Clinic
Source: Youtube
Date of Publication: March 31st, 2020
Cleveland Clinic's video about SAFE: six away from everyone
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Guidelines
Prevention
Safety measures
Six feet apart
NVIDIA Brings GPU, HPC and AI Expertise to COVID-19 Battle

NVIDIA Brings GPU, HPC and AI Expertise to COVID-19 Battle

By: Ken Brown
Source: NVIDIA
Date of Publication: April 6th, 2020
A task force of NVIDIA computer scientists has joined the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which brings together leaders from the U.S. government, industry and academia to accelerate research using the world’s most powerful HPC resources.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Consortium
Data
Software
Supercomputers
Task force
JetBlue Is the First Major U.S. Airline to Require Masks for Passengers - The New York Times.pdf

JetBlue Is the First Major U.S. Airline to Require Masks for Passengers

By: Johnny Diaz
Source: New York Times
Date of Publication: April 28th, 2020
Jet Blue becomes the first US airline to require masks for passengers in addition to crew.
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Masks
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Travel
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