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  • In Spain, a Strong Sense of Solidarity Drives Endurance in the Pandemic

    April 27, 2020 |

    PassBlue |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Spain, Madrid

    Spain's collectivist culture, free public-health system, and economic support structures have helped the country to combat the spread of coronavirus. One measure – known as "temporary employment regulation file, or expediente de regulación temporaria de empleo" – specifically helps those who would have otherwise lost their jobs due to business closures by allowing the employer to sign his or her employees up :to get paid by the state a monthly amount of approximately 70 percent of her/his latest taxable salary."

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  • $1 testing kits: Senegal's approach to coronavirus

    April 27, 2020 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Senegal, Dakar

    As the COVID-19 pandemic picked up across the world, Senegal, taking lessons from its experiences with Ebola, acted quickly. Measures like hard travel restrictions and lockdowns, daily information briefings and broadcasts, subsidizing hotels for isolations and quarantine, fever checks at most public locations, and cheap and accessible testing. Key to all of this has been the localized context – understanding what will work best for Senegal citizens, especially those in remote areas.

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  • ‘It's miraculous' — no known coronavirus cases in Acadiana's homeless shelters

    April 27, 2020 |

    The Current (Louisiana) |

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    Response Location: United States, Lafayette, Louisiana

    Having learned from failures during the 1980s AIDS epidemic, an outreach center in Louisiana was uniquely prepared to take preventative measures as the coronavirus outbreak spread, and so far, the efforts have worked. Not one case has been reported as of yet at Acadiana CARES, and many are crediting that to the rapid intervention strategies that included strict adherence to social distancing and isolating anyone who had underlying conditions or was considered vulnerable.

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  • Utah Guard soldiers bring their language skills to a new battlefront — as contact tracers in war against coronavirus

    April 27, 2020 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    To contain coronavirus, Utah has enabled contact tracing that utilizes state employees to make phone calls to those who have potentially been exposed to the virus but many they call do not speak English. To address the language barrier, members from the Utah National Guard’s 300th Military Intelligence Brigade – who serve on the linguistic unit – are volunteering to provide translations.

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  • Seattle's Leaders Let Scientists Take the Lead. New York's Did Not

    April 26, 2020 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In responding to the coronavirus outbreak, Washington State stands in direct contrast to New York in how local governments responded. While New York relied on direction from politicians, Washington State looked to public health experts to lead briefings and directions – a response that is now emerging as a successful model for building trust with state residents, and inspiring action rather than skepticism.

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  • Community Colleges across the state offering more than education to students during pandemic

    April 26, 2020 |

    Manchester Ink Link |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    When schools had to shut down in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, community colleges across New Hampshire found ways to accommodate and aid their students through the pandemic. Lakes Region Community College helped its culinary students complete their cooking lesson by offering meal box pick up for them to prepare at home. At River Valley Community College, students can set up appointments to pick up supplies from the food pantry, and five of the seven colleges in the state have offered students free access to online counseling portals.

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  • Testing for the coronavirus in Vermont: What's next?

    April 26, 2020 |

    VT Digger |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

    The local government in Vermont has relied on collective efforts from citizens, medical professionals, and state police to implement a strategy to contain the coronavirus outbreak. Faced with a testing shortage from the onset, officials instead turned to a "mitigation approach," which included repurposing a university lab to conduct Covid-19 tests while also enlisting police to transport the Covid-19 collection samples from the medical facilities to the lab.

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  • Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the Way

    April 24, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Australia, Sydney

    With the goal of containing the spread of Covid-19, the national governments in Australia and New Zealand took an approach that was predicated on letting public health experts take the lead. Although this approach – which led to early and aggressive restrictions of movement – was not met favorably by all at first, it has proved successful so far, leading both countries to reset the goal to eliminating the virus rather than just containing it.

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  • To Combat Coronavirus, Scientists Are Also Breaking Down Barriers

    April 23, 2020 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States

    The research field has often been siloed, with each discipline focusing on its own lane, but in the wake of COVID0-19 the shift toward interdisciplinary research is happening – and proving necessary. Often incentivized by grant funding for siloed work, now, researchers are seeing urgent calls to work together against the pandemic. While there have been great strides made across disciplines in the past, the complex issues of our time – climate change, systemic racism, economic inequity – are causing a shift across fields.

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  • Why South Korea's coronavirus death toll is comparatively low

    April 23, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: South Korea

    South Korea took early and aggressive measures to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic, and the country has now been able to successfully declare that they've flattened the curve of reported cases. The combined strategy of widespread testing, contact tracing, government transparency, community willingness to self-isolate, and an economy already built for the delivery of goods, helped the country avoid a national lockdown all while still containing the virus.

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