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  • Financially Challenged But Fierce, Griffin Hospital Innovates Its Way Through Pandemic

    July 12, 2021 |

    Connecticut Health Investigative Team |

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    Response Location: United States, Derby, Connecticut

    Griffin hospital used innovative strategies to test, vaccinate, and care for patients during the coronavirus pandemic. The hospital stocked up early, including with donated ventilators, and repurposed unused spaces and object to help care for COVID-19 patients. They offered large-scale testing, at the height administering 35,000 weekly tests at five drive-through locations. They also provided testing at 124 nursing homes to stem high infection rates. Once vaccinations were ready, Griffin set up clinics where people were, vaccinating thousands in nursing homes, local shops, schools, parks, and at churches.

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  • As Men Lead Charge Against Period Poverty In Nigeria, More Girls Now Make Their Pads

    July 12, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Feyisayo Sobowale Initiative (TFSI) works to address Period poverty, the lack of access to menstrual products by people who cannot afford them. In the four-hour training, TFSI distributes free sanitary products and teaches girls in schools how to make reusable pads so as to avoid the dangers of using old rags or paper. The girls receive a pattern and pamphlet with the steps to turn locally sourced cotton fabric into a sanitary pad that can be washed and reused for up to a year. The pad consists of two pieces of the cotton fabric sewn together with a pre-cut towel material inserted between them.

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  • Collaborating to provide safe drinking water in Sauka Community

    July 11, 2021 |

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Ruga Sauka community in Nigeria has access to clean water due to the help and collaboration of the aid organization, ChabadAid. An electric borehole was installed with the help of the residents who will also be responsible for maintenance of the equipment provided to them.

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  • Push on to boost mental health support for first responders

    July 09, 2021 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    The Peer Support Team at Northwest Fire District connects firefighters with a trained peer support specialist to talk confidentially about mental health. The program also connects firefighters in need with additional resources like therapy and counseling. In an effort to change the mindset most first responders have toward mental health, there are currently 50 trained peer support specialists throughout the state and more than 1,000 across the country.

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  • How Taiwan held off Covid-19, until it didn't

    July 06, 2021 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Taiwan

    Throughout 2020, Taiwanese society largely remained open and the country had 7 COVID-19 deaths. Taiwan’s 2003 experience with SARS set up an existing infrastructure to act quickly, including a centralized information command center that coordinated activities across government and health offices. Personal data was used to assign each citizen a risk level. Low-risk people were required to wear free masks, but could go about business as normal. High-risk people and all in-bound travelers were required to strictly quarantine for two weeks and the government used cell phone data to ensure compliance.

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  • Special clinics aim to get COVID vaccine to developmentally disabled

    July 06, 2021 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

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    Response Location: United States, Vernon, Connecticut

    Grassroots volunteer groups are helping people across the country make COVID-19 vaccine appointments. Get Out the Shot: Los Angeles has 100 vetted volunteers who have booked 300 appointments through the group’s system and thousands more on their own. Residents leave a message or fill out a Google form with their information and a volunteer picks up their case, books an appointment, and calls them to confirm. These volunteer organizations fill important assistance gaps in local government services that are stretched thin. Some groups focus on getting appointments for people from underserved communities.

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  • How ‘hockey hub' clinics are changing the vaccine game in Ontario

    June 30, 2021 |

    TVO |

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    Response Location: Canada, Ontario

    The “hockey hub” mass-vaccination model uses large spaces, like sports arenas, to vaccinate up to 70 people per hour, compared to 6-10 with traditional systems. Rows of 30 cubicles, each with a single chair, allow a health professional and an assistant to visit each patient with their vaccine-laden cart and quickly get consent and administer the vaccine. Once they finish the row, the first person to get their shot has waited the required post-vaccine observation time. The model requires less staff and time spent disinfecting surfaces in between patients, which substantially lowers the cost per vaccine.

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  • Welcome to Marshall County: Rural, red and at the top in Kansas for COVID-19 vaccination

    June 24, 2021 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Response Location: United States, Marysville, Kansas

    The vaccination rate of Marshall County is six percentage points higher than the state overall, a success that is built on an existing infrastructure of public health and trust-building that predates the pandemic. The county made a detailed plan for the vaccine rollout well before vaccines arrived and residents trust the health department because it provides 90% of the population with routine immunizations. The health department also works one-on-one with residents to answer vaccine questions, which is a more effective way of combating misinformation than a generalized outreach campaign.

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  • Big shots: The multicultural hustle for herd immunity in New Orleans

    June 21, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    As demand for vaccinations plateaued and vaccination rates in Louisiana lagged outside of New Orleans, health officials found a variety of targeted, small events to reach various subcultures. These pop-up events dealt in small numbers, but chipped away at people's hesitancy with easy access, information, and community leaders' endorsements. And, this being Louisiana, the vaccination events often featured music and local delicacies, from boiled crawfish to beignets and booze.

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  • India's healthcare workers are busting misinformation on WhatsApp

    June 17, 2021 |

    The Verge |

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    Response Location: India

    Accredited social health activists (ASHA) across India fight COVID-19 related misinformation on WhatsApp. ASHAs provide basic health care to people in their villages, which puts them on the frontline of treating COVID-19 patients and educating people to dispel the many myths about the virus and its treatments. ASHAs' local interactions often identify prevailing myths, which they quickly dispel in their face-to-face exchanges and by posting in the many local WhatsApp groups that have been created. The local groups have been an effective mode of educating people and helped ASHAs gain villagers’ trust.

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