Extraordinary circumstances have brought out extraordinary responses from members of our USask community. From frontline health-care workers to researchers looking for a solution to this global health threat, there are so many stories about people are working to make our home communities safer and healthy. Here are a few of the inspiring stories of our students, staff, faculty and alumni.
Second-year USask anatomy and cell biology student Noah Little has launched a website tracking all cases of COVID-19 in Canada.
“I was trying to see the cases across Canada and there really wasn’t a spot where I could see them all at once,” Little said in an interview with Global News.
Little said his reasons for starting the site aren’t work-motivated, though he is interested in a health-care career, possibly in medicine.
His methodology is simple. He’ll look at the daily schedule for provincial health news conferences, and plan his day around them. Whenever a COVID-19 case is reported, he adds it to his running tally.
Read more on this story at Global News.
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