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  • Can direct air capture make a real impact on climate change?

    Anna Kusmer

    July 03, 2020 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Switzerland, Zurich

    Climeworks is focusing on pulling carbon dioxide directly out of the air to store or reuse in some capacity as a way to lower global greenhouse gas emissions. The Swiss company has 16 plants around Europe, with their biggest one in Switzerland that removes 900 tons of carbon dioxide a year that is then sold to Coca-Cola Co. to put in soft drinks or to local industrial greenhouses for plant growth. Scaling the operations to capture more carbon is costly, but the startup recently raised $76 million from investors.

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  • Japan: A glimpse at Montana's future?

    David Erickson

    July 01, 2020 |

    Missoulian |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Japan

    A government-mandated care insurance program in Japan has gained both recognition and international praise for removing the burden of senior care from family members through the "socialization of elder care." The goal of the program, which has now been in place for two decades, is to help keep "elderly people physically active and less socially isolated," and could provide a model of care for other aging regions.

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  • How Rwanda is improving uptake of HPV immunisation

    Veronique Mistiaen

    June 30, 2020 |

    Apolitical |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Rwanda

    To raise awareness about and increase rates of HPV immunization in Rwanda, a local vaccine alliance formed a partnership with a digital-minded nonprofit to better directly reach adolescent girls throughout the community. The nonprofit implemented messaging from the vaccine alliance into an existing "girl-centric" campaign and early results have indicated an increased awareness of cervical cancer while "Rwanda’s HPV and routine childhood diseases vaccination programs have achieved 95%-97% coverage."

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  • The peak that wasn't

    Johnathan Hettinger

    June 26, 2020 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Montana

    Montana has largely been able to avoid the worst of the coronavirus pandemic by implementing very early measures – including a state of emergency, school closures, and social distancing protocols – before the virus had a chance to spread amongst the community. Having learned from how past communicable diseases spread throughout the state, such as whooping cough, health officials also quickly put a contact tracing effort into place. According to Dr. Laurel Desnick, Park County Health Officer, “Montana is still the safest place in the country.”

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  • The World's Best Healthcare Systems: Ezekiel Emanuel

    Richard Davies Jim Meigs

    June 26, 2020 |

    How Do We Fix It? |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    As evidenced in COVID-19 case comparisons, the U.S. health-care system has not performed as well as other countries to offer health-care access, yet is still "spends far more money on healthcare than any other nation." Other countries, such as Switzerland and Taiwan, offer guidance on how to learn from the system's failures, especially as it relates to emergency preparedness and price regulations.

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  • COVID-19 Quarantine Facility Links Homeless To Range Of Services

    Eleni Gill

    June 26, 2020 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Iwilei, Hawaii

    When Covid-19 began spreading throughout the United States, officials in Hawaii set up a quarantine facility for those experiencing homelessness that helped connect residents with other services to reduce their risk of contracting the virus. While it's too early to know if this could be a viable model for health care in the long run, the practice of temporary housing has currently helped curb the spread of the virus among the community's "unsheltered people."

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  • Mexico City Tames Covid-19 in One of World's Largest Food Markets

    David Luhnow Juan Montes

    June 25, 2020 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

    In New Mexico, the world’s largest wholesale food market managed to contain the spread of Covid-19 by taking an aggressive, early intervention course of action that included widespread testing, contact tracing and isolation protocols. Although the rest of the country has yet to implement such measures, the market which was once called "a center for infections," has already seen a drastic reduction in cases.

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  • What Parents Can Learn From Child Care Centers That Stayed Open During Lockdowns

    Anya Kamenetz

    June 24, 2020 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    When schools and daycares closed at the onset of the pandemic, YMCA centers around the country remained open to provide care for the children of essential workers. In Phoenix, YMCA staff worked to screen children for symptoms, and made social distancing fun by having them use 'airplane arms,' as well as implementing activities that made handwashing fun. Experts say "these experiences illustrate that it's possible to bring kids together without a guarantee of an outbreak or a serious situation developing," but the risk remains.

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  • 'The biggest challenge of our time': How Sweden doubled intensive care capacity amid Covid-19 pandemic

    Emma Löfgren

    June 23, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    Hospitals in Sweden have one of the lowest counts of ICU beds throughout Europe, but when Covid-19 began to spread, the country doubled their number of intensive care beds in preparation. Although hospitals took their own unique approach to achieving this, commonalities between each approach included reallocating space, investing in new or repurposing existing equipment, and "hospital staff going above and beyond normal duties."

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  • Can outdoor teaching enable Italy to safely reopen schools? Audio icon

    Jessica Phelan

    June 23, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Italy

    Some schools in Italy held trial reopenings after having to close due to the pandemic, and are modeling their new classroom environment after Denmark's "forest schools," where classes are held outside. In order to maintain social distancing, and high safety measures for both students and teachers, students are kept in small groups with assigned zones, and school days have been shortened. More schools across the country are also re-opening slowly and in small groups after seeing the results from the trial run.

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