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  • People are helping each other fight coronavirus, one Google spreadsheet at a time

    March 24, 2020 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States

    Healthy citizens desperate to find a way to help those at risk of developing severe coronavirus symptoms are creating spreadsheets detailing what services they can offer to their neighbors, whether it's grocery shopping or check-in calls. The mutual aid model is complementing the ongoing work of established nonprofits.

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  • This tool is helping cities find the neighborhoods most vulnerable to coronavirus

    March 24, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    A new urban planning tool called Urban Footprint is helping governments to map out their most vulnerable neighborhoods and populations. Originally designed in 2018 to help city planners make sense of large data sets and understand the implication of potential policies on traffic, energy use, or multiple other factors, Urban Footprint was easily adapted to pull in data from the CDC and other inputs for COVID-19 considerations.

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  • S. Korea develops “walk-thru” testing for novel coronavirus

    March 24, 2020 |

    The Hankyoreh |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    Drive-through clinics have already been proven to be effective, but now South Korea has successfully implemented "walk-in" clinics. They consist of a phone-booth-sized enclosure in which a clinician can insert their hands into gloves attached to the barrier to collect a sample from the patient inside. The whole process including disinfection takes 10 minutes, and now two walk-in centers have been opened in Seoul.

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  • Lessons From Macau, the Densely Populated Region Beating Back COVID-19

    March 24, 2020 |

    U.S. News & World Report |

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    Response Location: China, Macau

    Despite being the most densely populated area on earth, Macau, a special administrative region of China, has managed to keep its coronavirus infection rate astonishing low, in large part due to strict, fast-acting policy implementation. Within a week of Wuhan shutting down, Macau officials placed restrictions on travel, cut back on public transportation, and closed all schools in the area.

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  • People around the country are sewing masks. And some hospitals, facing dire shortage, welcome them

    March 24, 2020 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

    As the shortage of personal protective equipment continues amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, homemade masks are becoming an increasingly important option. While N-95 masks are preferable over homemade cotton masks, hospital facilities including St. Luke’s University Health Network in Pennsylvania have called on individuals to create up to 15,000 masks. By using elastic, and cotton, often from materials around the house, crafty individuals are filling a gap in this crisis.

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  • How schools went virtual — in just 72 hours Audio icon

    March 24, 2020 |

    The Boulder Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Montana

    In just a few days, Montana’s Jefferson County school district had to adapt to remote teaching in an attempt to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the governor leaving it up to schools and teachers to figure out how. From using Zoom to teleconference with students, to calling parents regularly, to figuring out if and how to use computers at all, teachers and administrators are learning how to provide structure and learning to kids from afar.

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  • These face masks are designed to be washed and reused

    March 24, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    As hospitals around the world run dangerously low or completely out of personal medical equipment like protective masks, one company has developed a recyclable nano-fiber filter that can fit inside surgical masks, which are generally less scarce than N95 face masks. The masks are reusable up to a month, a sustainable improvement from other single use models.

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  • ‘There's sunshine again': Thousands of meals delivered daily to Anchorage students as coronavirus closes classrooms Audio icon

    March 24, 2020 |

    Alaska Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    In Alaska, the Anchorage School District’s mobile food delivery service is delivering thousands of meals every day to Anchorage students. By repurposing school buses, school district leaders are packing sack lunches, school nurses, and educators on board to help with the deliveries.

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  • Supercomputers Recruited To Hunt For Clues To A COVID-19 Treatment

    March 24, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

    As scientists across the planet are racing to develop a vaccine to fight the novel coronavirus, the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium is using supercomputers to identify or create drug compounds that might prevent or treat a COVID-19 infection. The computing power of these supercomputers allows scientists to rapidly conduct their research.

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  • You Can Learn Something From The People Of Wuhan

    March 24, 2020 |

    Buzzfeed |

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    Response Location: China, Wuhan

    While the media mostly highlights the top-down, government-led measures of containment happening in Wuhan, China, an invisible, sophisticated grassroots network has also had a powerful positive effect on stemming the tide of infection. Using social media and apps like WeChat, neighbors helped each other find food and medicine, support the sick among them, and simply survive.

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