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Northern Arapaho Clinic Conducts Over 20 Percent Of COVID-19 Testing In Wyoming

Savannah Maher

April 16, 2020 |

Wyoming Public Media |

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Response Location: United States, Wyoming

The Wind River Family and Community Healthcare in Wyoming has been able to conduct a significant number of COVID-19 tests due to their early preparedness strategy. By early February, the clinic had begun drafting their plan and by April they had ordered enough supplies to conduct mass testing and implemented drive through testing sites, with all tests being sent to a private lab. Although there are limitations to how accurate results are when using a private lab, doctors at the clinic believe the approach has still been largely beneficial.

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In Vietnam, There Have Been Fewer Than 300 COVID-19 Cases And No Deaths. Here's Why

Michael Sullivan

April 16, 2020 |

NPR |

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Response Location: Vietnam

Vietnam has been praised for their collective response to containing coronavirus which was predicated on early and aggressive action and applying lessons learned from earlier communicable disease outbreaks. Although the country did not implement a lockdown until April 1, political leaders began taking actions as early as January.

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South Africa flattens its coronavirus curve—and considers how to ease restrictions

Linda Nordling

April 15, 2020 |

Science Magazine |

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Response Location: South Africa

Like countries around the world, South Africa imposed strict social distancing measures to slow the spread of COVID-19. After a few weeks, they’re seeing that slowdown happening and using it to build in additional safety measures, like screening for additional testing, building field hospitals, and sending community health care workers into smaller villages and towns.

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How Digital Contact Tracing Slowed Covid-19 in East Asia

Yasheng Huang

April 15, 2020 |

Harvard Business Review |

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Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

Though the type of government, whether democratic or authoritarian, seems to matter little in who is faring the best against the coronavirus pandemic, the more successful countries do tend to be situated in East Asia. South Korea has emerged especially successful, as private citizens have developed apps to aid the government in contact tracing methods. The country also had an extensive digital infrastructure in place after the dangerous 2015 MERS outbreak.

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How Greece is beating coronavirus despite a decade of debt

Helena Smith

April 14, 2020 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Greece

Greece took a proactive approach to contain the coronavirus – screening people as they entered the country even before any confirmed cases had been reported and then quarantining anyone returning from Spain in hotel rooms – and it appears so far to be working. The country's approach, which as been lauded by many as "textbook crisis management," also leveraged the crisis "to enact long overdue digital reforms" that have helped to eliminate red tape and make processes more efficient.

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The City That Has Flattened the Coronavirus Curve

Russell Berman

April 12, 2020 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Early data is showing that San Francisco's proactive and aggressive approach to containing the spread of COVID-19 is working. Once regarded as overly aggressive and premature, the mayor's decision to declare a state of emergency and ban gatherings of groups of more than 1,000 people prior to the confirmation of any cases in the area, is now emerging as a model for how to handle a public health crisis.

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How Europe manages to keep a lid on coronavirus unemployment while it spikes in the U.S.

Michael Birnbaum

April 11, 2020 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: France

European countries like France and Germany have been able to keep their unemployment rates low because of pre-existing programs that have been called to action during COVID-19. In France, the government subsidizes up to 84% of wages to incentive companies not to lay their employees off. In Germany, their short-time work program pays up to two-thirds of employee pay. While not an inexpensive method, some say it could help their economies replenish quicker after the pandemic.

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The big lesson from South Korea's coronavirus response

Christina Thornell Danush Parvaneh Ranjani Chakraborty Mac Schneider

April 10, 2020 |

Vox |

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Response Location: South Korea

Having learned lessons from the 2015 MERS outbreak, South Korea was quick to implement both widespread testing and contact tracing at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although cases were only just beginning to be reported in the country, government officials were already working with bioengineers to create test kits in order to "prepare for the worst."

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Greece Shows How to Handle the Crisis

Ferdinando Giugliano

April 10, 2020 |

Bloomberg |

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Response Location: Greece, Athens

The speed of the response matters in mitigating the public health impact of a pandemic. Greece, which acted to restrict non-essential movement faster than countries like Spain and Italy, has sufewera fewer cases of COVID-19. Alongside enacting containment policies only days after its first cases, Greece has been able to prepare its emergency medical system by recruiting additional doctors and staff.

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Did Ohio get it right? Early intervention, preparation for pandemic may pay off.

Lenny Bernstein

April 09, 2020 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

By taking prompt action to shut down major tourist events and increase medical treatment capacity, Ohio’s early response to COVID-19 has, thus far, helped to temper the surge of confirmed cases in the state. Governor DeWine and the Cleveland Clinic began to mobilize resources prior to the state's first confirmed case. The Governor also suspended “The Arnold,” a popular fitness exposition in Columbus.

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