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- It was this synergistic effort
that we got one trial launched,
and now we have three more that we're considering.
We describe it as pressure is a privilege.
Now that we're under this tight crunch,
it's just, hopefully, making us very productive
in a way that we can help our patients.
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- In case of COVID the question is,
are there any drugs on the market that
may just serendipitously, and very luckily,
be useful against COVID?
And we found some computational evidence
these drugs may bind and block the ability of the virus
to get into cells.
- This really awesome team from my lab
kind of dropped everything else they were doing
and started working on
modeling transmission dynamics of COVID-19.
- I pulled data from air quality monitors,
measured the substantial improvement in air quality
in places like China.
Air quality improved 20%.
And then I tried to measure the health impact,
or the health benefits,
of those improvements in air quality,
and it turns out they're quite large.
- We created a computer model of that basically uses
mobility data to simulate
the spread of infection of COVID-19.
- Our main insight in this research
was to use anonymized large-scale data
coming from cellphones.
- The concept is to adapt a full face snorkel mask
to interface with an existing supply of rated filters.
- On the face of it wouldn't have necessarily
seemed like a great fit for online learning
because it's focused on
hands-on material culture collections.
We were lucky in that we had our 3D models already made,
so they could start working with those in 3D.
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- We have all these historical precedents
of how hard it is to not just develop a vaccine
that's safe and effective,
but how to scale it up and just manage the logistics
of mass vaccination campaigns. It can take decades,
we're trying to do it in the space of 12 months.
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- There are 11 million children in the US alone
who do not have their own laptop or computer,
a suitable device for learning at home.
- In April, during remote schooling, we came together
and started building Bridging Tech from the ground up.
We started with Hamilton Family Shelter in San Francisco.
We have expanded to many cities,
especially in the last three months.
We are in Boston, in DC, Los Angeles,
in New York, and Atlanta, and the list continues to grow.
- Ultimately, the goal of Bridging Tech
is to improve children's education
and to ensure that children's education is equitable.
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- It's really scary, what's happening.
People in the US are going to go hungry this year.
There's no question.
We want to help them, we want to try to figure out
is there something we can do?
This such a big problem, we just need to do something.
If I need to go rent a truck, I'll go rent a truck,
I'll go drive to the farm, and just bring it
to our local food bank.
And that was kind of the start of this
that really got it going.
We found an egg ranch that had surplus eggs.
We talked to our local food bank who really needed eggs.
So we rented a refrigerated truck,
and just drove to the farm, picked up the eggs,
and delivered it to the food bank.
Seeing all these people come together,
it's incredibly inspiring,
and it's hard not to feel hopeful
when every day you're being exposed to that.
- The Healthy Elections Project started to try to
stand up an organization that would be laser-focused
on helping local election officials adapt to the pandemic.
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- I hope to be able to return to Stanford in person,
connect with all the people and places
that make it such an amazing place.
- I hope our break from being on campus
is over before too long.
- My wish for all of us is that we stay hopeful.
In the words of the late Travis Roy,
Sometimes we choose our challenges,
and sometimes our challenges choose us.
It is what we do in the face of those challenges
that defines who we are,
and more importantly, who we will become.
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