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  • Des plates-formes assurent le suivi des malades infectés par le coronavirus à domicile

    April 01, 2020 |

    Le Monde |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    En France, la plate-forme Covidom, comme l’application Covid AP-HM, permettent un suivi quotidien et automatisé des malades atteints du coronavirus mais ne nécessitant pas d’hospitalisation.

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  • Social distancing works. The earlier the better, California and Washington data show.

    April 01, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    California and Washington were both early to adopt social distancing measures in the United States as a response to the coronavirus pandemic, and are now emerging as successful models for how this protocol could work if enacted early. Although these states have not been immune to a heavy caseload, they have not experienced the spikes that have overwhelmed the hospitals in states like New York.

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  • Kansas City's WWI Museum is avoiding layoffs by giving employees thousands of pages from its archives to digitize

    April 01, 2020 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    By assigning employees to digitization projects, the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, continues to operate even while day-to-day visitors stay home. To prevent staff from losing their jobs, the Museum has assigned teams to transcribe documents and letters. By shifting their priority, from interacting with visitors to processing collections, the Museum is able to make of its materials accessible to the public and researchers online.

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  • How South Korea Solved Its Face Mask Shortage

    April 01, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    To combat a shortage of protective masks caused by the onset of the coronavirus outbreak, the South Korea government implemented "significant market interventions." The government began purchasing masks from manufacturers, allocating a certain number primarily to pharmacies to distribute, and informed the public that they were to "buy two masks per week on an assigned weekday, depending on their year of birth."

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  • Hospital chaplains find creative ways to offer compassion, despite coronavirus restrictions, so no one has to die alone

    April 01, 2020 |

    Chicago Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Social distancing rules are proving to be especially difficult to maintain for people whose family member is dying of the virus. Chaplains in Chicago are finding ways to help families to be with their loved ones in times of illness and so that no patient has to die alone. Chaplains will talk to the patient on the phone, broadcast family members' voices over the rooms' intercoms, and hand nurses prayer cards to give to the patient when they enter the room. The chaplains also work to alleviate the stress of the healthcare workers by praying over specific concerns and wishes that the nurses have.

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  • Honoring loved lost ones through Zoom during COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing orders

    April 01, 2020 |

    KCRW |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    As social distancing is preventing community members to pay proper respects to those who passed, people are inventing new ways to connect with one another and celebrate both life and death. This piece features examples of such. One example is a family marking the passing of a matriarch by sending a mass email asking people to raise a glass in her memory. Another is a public online Seder hosted over Zoom.

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  • Mt. Sinai Health launches coronavirus app to track outbreak across the New York City

    April 01, 2020 |

    CNBC |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    To better trace the spread of coronavirus, Singapore and China have been using apps that collect data about citizens' whereabouts and let people know if they've potentially been in contact with someone who has been diagnosed with the virus. Now, similar apps are being piloted in New York and Massachusettes in an attempt to better "understand more about the clinical course of the disease."

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  • Reporting for duty: Airline crew sign up to help hospitals

    April 01, 2020 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    Many flight attendants for Scandinavian Airlines have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic but are now being given the opportunity to retrain as healthcare providers. The laid-off crew members already have emergency medical training and are "trained in how to handle difficult interpersonal situation," which makes the move to nursing homes and hospitals an almost natural transition.

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  • Covid-19 Changed How the World Does Science, Together

    April 01, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    While most other scientific research around the world has come to a halt, coronavirus research is flourishing as a global collaboration of scientists focuses on understanding the virus and finding a vaccine. Competition among scientists and countries is still fervent, but information is being shared across labs and borders more urgently and quickly than before.

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  • The law of generosity combatting coronavirus in Pakistan

    April 01, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Karachi

    In Pakistan, where many citizens earn a daily wage from street businesses that have now been forced to close due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pakistanis are continuing to contribute zakat, "the traditional Muslim charity tax." The contributions – regarded as "one of the most important religious duties for Muslims" – are used to create packages containing basic grocery items and anti-bacterial soap for the daily-wage workers.

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