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  • Healthy Eating Is Key To Well Being. So Why Is Hospital Food Always So Bad?

    March 16, 2020 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Davis, California

    In an attempt to offer healthier meals and reduce stigma around hospital food, hospitals are reinventing their dining services by hiring professional chefs, nutritionists, and dieticians. At the UC Davis Medical Center, this type of approach has already shown success with a growth in consumers, including an influx of locals from the community even coming to eat at the hospital cafe.

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  • Lockdown of Recovering Italian Town Shows Effectiveness of Early Action

    March 16, 2020 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: Italy, Codogno

    Despite the devastation Italy has seen from the coronavirus pandemic, the town of Codogno has been able to largely avoid the same fate. Crediting immediate "drastic containment measures," that went into effect after the initial cases were reported and included adherence to social distancing and other social restrictions, the city has been able to flatten the curve of cases and lift some restrictions.

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  • While other countries lost precious time, Taiwan mobilised to keep COVID-19 at bay

    March 16, 2020 |

    The Sydney Morning Herald |

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    Response Location: Taiwan, Taipei

    In Taiwan, a combination of "early intervention and a well-oiled command structure" have helped to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. Measures such a public health hotline, temperature check points, enhanced hygiene protocols, integrated databases, and a diversion of funds and military personnel towards making protective masks, all worked together to slow the spread and offer lessons to the countries still fighting an increasing caseload.

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  • How South Korea Scaled Coronavirus Testing While the U.S. Fell Dangerously Behind

    March 15, 2020 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Daegu

    South Korea is emerging as a model for many countries battling the spread of coronavirus, thanks to the country's quick response to initiate widespread testing and contact tracing methodology. Having learned from what failed during the outbreak in 2015, the country has been able to keep their death toll under 1 percent, unlike many other countries battling the pandemic.

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  • Warum Südkorea so effektiv gegen das Coronavirus handeln kann

    March 15, 2020 |

    Augsburger Allgemeine |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    Südkorea hat im großen Stil und rasch ein umfangreiches Testsystem zur Erkennung des Virus aufgebaut. In nur 17 Tagen haben die Behörden einen eigenen Virus-Test eingeführt und ein Netzwerk aus insgesamt 96 Laboren ins Laufen gebracht. Die Infektionszahlen sind rückläufig.

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  • South Korea's coronavirus response is the opposite of China and Italy – and it's working

    March 14, 2020 |

    South China Morning Post |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    South Korea has received acclaim for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak relative to China, where the initial outbreak originated. While China has enforced strict measures limiting movement and commerce, South Korea has stepped up by quickly ramping up widespread free or affordable testing and specifically not restricting travel, but rather by tracking people who have been infected and testing those they have come into contact with - and it seems to have been effective in slowing the spread in a way that could be an example to other countries.

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  • South Korea's rapid coronavirus testing, far ahead of the U.S., could be saving lives

    March 14, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    As countries have attempted various responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea’s response stands out for its swift ability to disseminate and scale testing for the disease, which mostly came about in reaction to its response to the MERS outbreak in 2015. Years after MERS, when the novel coronavirus outbreak was still in its early stages in China in January 2020, South Korea had already begun distributing tests. A high testing rate that has also protected health-care workers has contributed to a lower death rate in South Korea.

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  • They've Contained the Coronavirus. Here's How.

    March 13, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Singapore

    Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong have each shown success with slowing the pace of the coronavirus outbreak due in part from learning lessons during the 2002 SARS outbreak. Combining different approaches to social distancing and quarantine, travel restrictions, and public health campaigns focused on hygiene best practices, the countries have shown that it doesn't necessarily take "China’s draconian measures" to mitigate the spread.

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  • Coronavirus Testing Goes Mobile in Seattle

    March 13, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In early January, doctors at UW Medical Center began preparing for a coronavirus outbreak by transforming a research lab into a screening center for coronavirus that delivers results within a day. Now, coupled with a mobile clinic that allows for people to be tested from within the confines of their cars, the city has been able to test a large volume of people more safely than if they were being tested from within a hospital.

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  • COVID-19: Il aurait fallu s'inspirer de Taïwan, mais c'est trop tard

    March 13, 2020 |

    Usbek & Rica |

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    Response Location: Taiwan

    Plusieurs pays d'Asie ont rapidemment instauré des mesures efficaces pour limiter la propagation de la pandémie au sein de leurs populations. Ces stratégies pour contenir la contagion auraient pu constituer un modèle de réponse pour les pays européens. Toutefois, ces dispositifs soulèvent des questions en termes de respect de la vie privée.

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