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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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  • How do you build a city for a pandemic? Audio icon

    April 26, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Major populated cities such as New York and London were once regarded as "death traps," but a series of deadly outbreaks led to structural changes that worked to improve the public health outcomes for those living there. From sewer systems to therapeutic gardens, the health of those living in cities has improved in a variety of ways, however, that has not stopped densely populated areas from turning into hotspots for coronavirus. To address this, local governments are experimenting with even more structural changes such as turning city streets into walking and biking paths.

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  • As pandemic continues, community nursing effort looks to grow in the Upper Valley

    April 25, 2020 |

    Valley News |

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    Response Location: United States, Lebanon, Connecticut

    In the New England region of the U.S., community nurses are working to fill a void in health care during the coronavirus pandemic for those who may require medical attention but do not need hospital care. As described by the co-director of the Upper Valley Community Nursing Project, "the last thing the health care system needs right now is a lot of people in the emergency room because there have been complications of their chronic diseases, or they’ve fallen or they have problems with their medications."

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  • Was wir von den Toten lernen können

    April 25, 2020 |

    Zeit Online |

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    Response Location: Germany, Munich, Bavaria

    Verstorbene obduzieren, die Corona hatten – ist das eine gute Idee? Ja, finden Pathologen. Denn diese Menschen könnten uns noch viel über das Virus verraten. Schon bei HIV oder Hepatitis C hat die Pathologie dabei geholfen, die Viren und ihre Wege im Körper zu verstehen.

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  • Bankers say PPP loans saved 40,000 jobs in New Hampshire

    April 25, 2020 |

    New Hampshire Business Review |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    The Paycheck Protection Program, a program launched by the federal government to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic, has helped the community in New Hampshire save about 40,000 jobs. Although not all small businesses are keen to take the loan because of the strict stipulations that must be met for it to be forgivable, overall, 7,400 loans have been approved so far.

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  • Migrantes en Argentina: la solidaridad como única vía

    April 25, 2020 |

    Efecto Cocuyo |

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    Response Location: Argentina

    Los venezolanos que han estado viviendo en Argentina durante años logran recolectar dinero y ayudar a los nuevos inmigrantes de Venezuela durante la crisis pandémica. El sistema de donaciones ayuda a los recién llegados a integrarse en una realidad más difícil para los trabajadores informales, debido a las medidas nacionales de confinamiento.

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  • Ramadan In The Age Of Coronavirus: Some Colorado Muslims View Isolation As An Opportunity To Grow In Their Faith

    April 24, 2020 |

    Colorado Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    An Islamic organization called Downtown Denver’s Islamic Center is helping members of their community adjust to the quarantine and maintain their spiritual practice. All services and counseling has been moved online, and their preexisting food assistance program is still going on, albeit adjusted to accommodate for the shortage of volunteers during the quarantine. They even have many one-on-one phone calls with people to work through specific issues. It's not perfect, and they still want to do more, but for now they are serving a great spiritual and communal need.

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  • Utah And New Mexico Lead The Region In COVID-19 Testing. Here's How They've Done It Audio icon

    April 24, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Deploying a state-wide COVID-19 testing strategy requires coordinating both public and private-industry stakeholders. In Utah and New Mexico, the appointment of “testing czars,” or public health leaders in charge of coordinating testing, has led to targeted, successful strategies to ramp up testing. These “testing czars” work to coordinate with commercial and public labs to find supplies and address bottlenecks. Suppliers work to connect via conference call to discuss logistics, allowing for successful scaling in both rural and urban testing strategies.

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  • As residents at Milwaukee County nursing homes contracted and died of coronavirus, administrators and local officials kept it to themselves

    April 24, 2020 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, West Allis, Wisconsin

    After the coronavirus outbreak devastated a nursing home in Wisconsin unbeknownst to the residents' family members and the public, advocates and lawmakers called for more transparency from the facility. The agency, joining other care facilities in the state and nation, is now reporting cases according to newly implemented protocols regarding transparency and timeliness, as a means of helping "family members and health care workers plan for their safety."

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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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