{"id":118024,"date":"2021-01-04T01:19:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T09:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/canadian-researchers-investigate-drone-delivery-of-medical-supplies-to-remote-communities-during-the-pandemic"},"modified":"2021-01-04T01:19:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T09:19:56","slug":"canadian-researchers-investigate-drone-delivery-of-medical-supplies-to-remote-communities-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/canadian-researchers-investigate-drone-delivery-of-medical-supplies-to-remote-communities-during-the-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Canadian researchers investigate drone delivery of medical supplies to remote communities during the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), commonly referred to as drones, may prove to be a valuable tool in the battle against pandemics like COVID-19. Researchers at the University of Calgary<\/a>, the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology<\/a> (SAIT), Alberta Health Services<\/a> (AHS) and Alberta Precision Laboratories<\/a> (APL) are partnering with the Stoney Nakoda Nations<\/a> (SNN) to deliver medical equipment and test kits for COVID-19 to remote areas, and to connect these communities to laboratories more quickly using these remotely piloted aircraft.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe know that testing for COVID-19 is one of our most effective tools against its spread. Many remote communities in Canada do not have easy access to testing centres and medical supplies to support rapid testing and containment. Drones can help us respond to that need,\u201d says Dr. John Conly, MD, medical director of the W21C Research and Innovation Centre<\/a> at the Cumming School of Medicine<\/a> (CSM) and co-principal investigator on the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), commonly referred to as drones, may prove to be a valuable tool in the battle against pandemics like COVID-19. Researchers at the University of Calgary, the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Alberta Health Services (AHS) and Alberta Precision Laboratories (APL) are partnering with the Stoney Nakoda Nations (SNN) to deliver [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}