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The Forgotten Stones That Still Inspire Turks to Help Their Neighbors

Jennifer Hattam

August 24, 2020 |

Atlas Obscura |

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Response Location: Turkey, Istanbul

Building on a history of anonymous charity, a mosque in northern Istanbul started a pop-up communal food bank to help those most impacted by the pandemic. The initiative is one of several mutual aid efforts underway in the municipality, with each paying homage to the nation's historical use of a charity stone - a place where "people who had money would leave some on top of the stone, and those who didn’t would take some, according to their need."

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Staff at Hong Kong's makeshift Covid-19 hospital protected by e-health system

Gigi Choy

August 24, 2020 |

South China Morning Post |

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Response Location: China, Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, a newly devised e-health system is teaching patients how to test and monitor their own symptoms during the coronavirus pandemic, rather than have a doctor administer in-person care. Using an exhibition center as the treatment facility, patients with mild symptoms are admitted and then taught "how to check their own vital signs and input the data into the system," which helps limit the contact they have with anyone else.

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Can Mount Vernon learn from Marion's downtown alley project?

Grant Pepper

August 23, 2020 |

Knox Pages |

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Response Location: United States, Marion, Ohio

The city of Marion, Ohio, has allocated an alley for use as a community hub where diners can eat, families can frolick, and revelers can listen to live music. The space has benefitted the local economy, encouraging residents to come out and support vendors on main street. During the pandemic, it served as a place people could safely gather while enjoying fresh air and a lively atmosphere. The nearby city of Mount Vernon is taking notes from Marion's success.

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Vaccine Tech 30 Years in the Making Is Getting Put to the Ultimate Test

Emily Mullin

August 21, 2020 |

Medium |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

A key set of entrants in the race to develop an effective COVID-19 vaccine use a genetic approach that has shown promising but preliminary results in human safety trials. Genetic vaccines, which have been in development for 30 years but have never undergone large-scale clinical trials or been used widely, differ from traditional vaccines, which inject a form of an actual pathogen to trigger an immune response. DNA and RNA vaccines can be developed much more quickly by using a small piece of genetic code to instruct a body's response. Initial human safety trials worked enough to move to large-scale tests.

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Why did 77 Ohio prisoners die of COVID-19, but just 10 in Pennsylvania?

Brie Zeltner Cid Standifer

August 21, 2020 |

Eye On Ohio |

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Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania prisons' relatively uncrowded conditions and approach to releasing people early when the pandemic hit have limited deaths in its prisons, making people incarcerated in Pennsylvania less than half as likely to die of COVID-19 as free Pennsylvanians. In neighboring Ohio, where COVID cases appeared simultaneously, the prison death rate has been nearly seven times higher than Pennsylvania's. Ohio's prisons are far more crowded, they rely much more on dorm-style housing, and their early-release rules were much more restrictive.

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For Quick Coronavirus Testing, Israel Turns to a Clever Algorithm

David Halbfinger

August 21, 2020 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Israel, Beersheba

The Israeli government is preparing to roll out a new form of pooled testing as the count of COVID-19 cases continues to increase. The methodology, which has already shown promise as a successful pilot project, works more efficiently than other pooled-testing efforts by using a combinatorial algorithm that was "developed a decade ago to speed the detection of rare genetic mutations."

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As COVID-19 cases rise, experts question effectiveness of contact tracing in S.D. and across the U.S.

Nick Lowrey

August 21, 2020 |

South Dakota News Watch |

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Response Location: United States, South Dakota

Contact tracing has been touted as an effective tool for slowing the spread of COVID-19 and has shown success in countries such as South Korea – helping to not just identify potential superspreader events, but to also help the economy remain largely open. In the U.S., contact tracers in South Dakota have been able to "identify 35,000 close contacts of coronavirus patients during the pandemic so far," but health experts question if the workforce spans enough of the state.

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Pandemic pushes expansion of 'hospital-at-home' treatment

Linda A. Johnson

August 20, 2020 |

Associated Press |

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Response Location: United States, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Although offering at-home care has been a practice for some time, the coronavirus pandemic has helped prompt more health insurance companies to allow health care workers to implement the practice at a larger scale. Treating patients in their homes doesn't just reduce the caseload for doctors in hospitals but also has been shown to have positive effects on the patient's overall health and well-being. Since the change in health insurance police, "interest in the programs has skyrocketed."

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Telemedicina en Guanacaste: «Ahora es posible brindar consultas que antes creíamos imposibles»

Eduardo Costa

August 20, 2020 |

La Voz de Guanacaste |

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Response Location: Costa Rica, Guanacaste

Mirando el caso específico de la región de Guanacaste y el Hopital de Liberia, se analiza el impacto de la aplicación de la telemedicina y la teleconsulta en pacientes de diferentes tipos, desde atención post-operatoria hasta atención con un especialista, producto de las restricciones generadas por la pandemia por COVID-19.

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Flint Community Schools is Going Door to Door to Find Hard-to-Reach Students

Carmen Nesbitt

August 20, 2020 |

Flint Beat |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

Staff from Flint Community Schools are taking a more door-to-door approach to find the close to 1,500 students who have not yet started attending virtual school when the fall semester started. FCS assembled "wellness teams" made up "social workers, behavioral specialists, nurses, and paraprofessionals" and sent them to neighborhoods with mapped routes to walk around neighborhoods and find students and their families, as well as help identify needs to assist with including food assistance, wi-fi hotspots, and other individual needs.

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