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  • A distillery makes hand sanitizer, a restaurant sells toilet paper: How food businesses are doing COVID-19 pivots

    March 20, 2020 |

    Berkeleyside |

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    Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

    When the Bay Area issued a shelter-in-place order as a response to containing the spread of COVID-19, businesses had to adapt. From a local distillery creating hand sanitizer at cost, to a restaurant offering groceries, to a catering business selling drive-through meals, local businesses have gotten creative to maintain revenue and pay employees.

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  • School District Buys Internet Transmission Towers to Keep Students Connected

    March 20, 2020 |

    KXAS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Fort Worth, Texas

    As school districts around the country move all classes online, students face challenges with accessibility because of weak or no internet connections. But in a Texas school district called Castleberry, that problem has been solved thanks to a $600,000 investment in cell phone towers that provide free internet to all students in the area.

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  • Communities Mobilize to Help Elderly Weather Coronavirus Crisis

    March 20, 2020 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: Belgium

    Across the world, many senior citizens have been cut off from access to normal routines and ways of community due to the coronavirus pandemic, but communities and organizations are working to fill the void. In Belgium, robots are being used in retirement homes to combat isolation, while in Germany, employees of a soccer club are shopping for the elderly.

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  • For the rural elderly, it can take a village

    March 19, 2020 |

    The Boulder Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalispell, Montana

    Rural communities throughout the United States are experimenting with a Boston-based senior-assistance program that implements a shared-services approach to senior care. Although barriers to creating connectivity in isolated rural regions can be more challenging than in more urbanized cities, rural areas in Colorado and Montana are finding ways to make it work.

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  • Cincinnati Zoo Offers At Home Safari

    March 19, 2020 |

    Spectrum News 1 Ohio |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    The Cincinnati Zoo has found a way to connect to their community even after temporarily shutting its doors because of COVID19. Using Facebook Live, the zoo hosts daily videos showcasing different animals and educational programming about them. Their first video reached over 4 million views and has shown to be a way to engage their members, even from afar.

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  • 1.2 million subscribers: How Reddit's coronavirus community became a destination

    March 18, 2020 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States

    A group of researchers of infectious diseases, virologists, computer scientists, doctors, and nurses have taken to moderating a community coronavirus message board on Reddit to help spread awareness and decrease information around the pandemic. From fact-checking to alerting of breaking news, these volunteers are helping to more efficiently get valid information to those in the online community, while incentivizing the sharing of valuable information via the platform's system of upvotes.

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  • Islam Finds a Home in German Classrooms

    March 18, 2020 |

    Are We Europe |

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    Response Location: Germany, Frankfurt, Hesse

    Germany is unusual amongst countries in its attitude towards religion—it considers faith to be "sociologically and psychologically important and part of both individuals and society." In these advances, it has begun to teach the religion of Islam in its German-speaking public schools, within state-supervised curriculum that also covers Catholicism and Protestantism. This helps the German people to get to know their large Muslim population better and helps weed out radicalism with education. This is part of a larger strategy to better integrate their Muslim residents, which has a lot of public support.

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  • Community aid groups set up across UK amid coronavirus crisis

    March 16, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    In the UK, mutual aid groups are popping up to deliver food and medical supplies to those who can't leave their homes as a result of the rapidly spreading COVID-19. Organizers are keeping the efforts local to limit the possibility of transmission through these activities.

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  • South Korea Shows World How to Slow Spread of Coronavirus

    March 12, 2020 |

    Voice of America (VOA) |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    South Korea has taken a softer approach to preventing and containing the coronavirus, in large part because they’ve prioritized accessible testing and have an already-existing strong and affordable healthcare system. Beyond that, the government has centered on citizen education – sending daily updates about new cases and provided a hotline for questions and concerns.

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  • Experts Credit South Korea's Extensive Testing For Curbing Coronavirus Spread

    March 12, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    South Korea has had an extremely effective response to the coronavirus because of its fast and widespread use of testing. There are now drive-through tests available where people recommended by their doctor can take a test from the safety of their vehicle. This decreases the chances of transmission and lowers the stress of both patient and doctor. As a result, the rate of increase has been slowing since February 29, 2020.

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