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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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  • 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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  • Renaissance Mill

    March 23, 2020 |

    Oregon Business Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, West Linn, Oregon

    After a paper mill in Oregon closed abruptly, a venture capitalist swooped in, bought the place, and reopened it as the first paper mill in the United States to produce paper using wheat pulp. Through a partnership between a pulp plant in Washington state, the Willamette Falls Paper Company is using the leftover material from wheat farmers to turn it into a product that reduces agricultural waste, carbon emissions, and the need to cut down trees.

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  • 'We Can't Anoint The Sick': Faith Leaders Seek New Approaches To Pastoral Care

    March 23, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Shady Side, Maryland

    Many churches throughout the U.S. have moved their weekly services online during the coronavirus pandemic, but not all needs can be addressed this way. To help offer services like counseling and individual prayer, some pastors and ministers are offering drive-through services for prayer requests or blessings while others are making hospital visits under the guidance of social distancing rules.

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  • Traveling Nurses, Doctors Fill Gaps In Rural Coverage Ahead Of COVID-19

    March 23, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Barstow, California

    Traveling clinicians are being assigned to rural regions of the U.S. to play a part in helping small, understaffed hospitals respond to the coronavirus outbreak. To make this process easier and more efficient and offer the flexibility that most rural hospitals need, many states have eased licensing requirements "making it easier for travel nurses to move from state to state."

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  • Medical Students, Sidelined for Now, Find New Ways to Fight Coronavirus

    March 23, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Medical students have found creative ways to pitch in during the Coronavirus pandemic when they are not yet certified to work with patients. Students across the country are organizing to help out by doing things like offering childcare for medical workers and sourcing personal protective equipment from a range of businesses. The students themselves say that they are happy to do "anything we can do to relieve burden on the real heroes.”

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  • Coronavirus: Platform Matches Tech Talent with Gov in Need

    March 23, 2020 |

    Government Technology |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    A new platform, nicknamed the U.S. Digital Response for COVID-19, is connecting volunteer technologists, engineers, and other tech-leaning experts with state, county, and local governments in desperate need of help during the crisis. The creators aimed to create a clearinghouse for data and digital leaders looking to volunteer, and they noted that already 1000 volunteers have signed up.

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  • San Francisco Fights Coronavirus By Finding the Homeless a Home

    March 23, 2020 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Recognizing the unique vulnerability of its homeless population to the coronavirus outbreak, San Francisco is transforming motels and hotels into makeshift and spacious shelters. The city must act fast to protect a homeless population that has soared to over 8,000 residents in recent years amid an ongoing tech boom, officials and community leaders say.

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  • Housing rents in big cities: What happens if we regulate them?

    March 23, 2020 |

    Global Government Forum |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Rising rents are being addressed through a variety of interventions in cities around the world. While rent control has worked in some cities, it has been a lesson of what does not work for others. Policies to keep rent affordable have included negotiations between tenants and landlords, limiting price increases, and even freezing rents. The effects - both long and short term - of these measures have all depended on the fluctuating variables in each city.

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  • Overworked, underpaid and lonely: Conservationists find a new community online

    March 23, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Australia

    Lonely Conservationists, an online forum that unites conservationists from around the world, has more than 2,500 members and 55 posts by conservationists who share their experiences of being exhausted, undervalued, underpaid, and isolated. Many members struggle with their mental health and the online community has provided a venue where they can get support from other people who understand their experiences. The group cannot solve all of the problems faced by conservationists, but members report building trust and increasing confidence by speaking their truths, with many going on to find jobs.

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