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SafeBoda: From ferrying passengers to delivering ARVs and Condoms

Jacky Achan

June 25, 2020 |

New Vision |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

In parts of Uganda, ride-sharing has been transformed into a medical delivery service to ensure that those who are unable to travel to their doctor for antiretroviral refills have access to the medications they need to stay healthy. Although the program is limited in terms of the areas it can serve due to cost, doctors in the region hope to continue and expand the program after seeing such success since implementation.

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'The biggest challenge of our time': How Sweden doubled intensive care capacity amid Covid-19 pandemic

Emma Löfgren

June 23, 2020 |

The Local |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

Hospitals in Sweden have one of the lowest counts of ICU beds throughout Europe, but when Covid-19 began to spread, the country doubled their number of intensive care beds in preparation. Although hospitals took their own unique approach to achieving this, commonalities between each approach included reallocating space, investing in new or repurposing existing equipment, and "hospital staff going above and beyond normal duties."

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Montana Manufacturers' New Products, Markets Could Have Lasting Impact Post-Pandemic

Kylie Mohr

June 23, 2020 |

Yellowstone Public Radio |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Bonner, Montana

In Montana, a handful of manufacturers have adapted their facilities to make products and materials that help healthcare workers safely work on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic. From face shields to liquid transport mediums, these businesses are finding new ways to play a larger role in the efforts to contain the virus, while also keeping their employees working.

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Design Hacks Will Dominate the Coronavirus Recovery Landscape

Amanda Hurley

June 23, 2020 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Covid-19 created space for everyday citizens, who are not trained architects, designers, or urban planners, to alter how public spaces are used. Known as tactical urbanism, everyday people are using inexpensive and creative ways to change behaviors and stop the spread of the virus. Examples include homemade signs and makeshift barriers to maintain distance. At a protest in Israel participants maintained social distancing by staying on spray-painted Xs two meters apart. Some homemade design hacks do not inspire confidence, but others may become a part of the long-term landscape of changes caused by the virus.

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This Hermon company's work dried up when coronavirus hit. Now it's making masks for the long run.

Emily Burnham

June 17, 2020 |

Bangor Daily News |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Bangor, Maine

A tension fabric structures manufacturing company in Maine has repurposed their facility and transformed their local workforce to create grade-one medical masks for the local hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic. Because the company uses only U.S.-made materials, they have been able to avoid supply chain interruptions and now plans to continue making masks as part of their standard business model even after the pandemic passes.

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Thinking Outside the Box to Test for Covid-19 in Rural Kentucky

Liz Carey

June 08, 2020 |

The Daily Yonder |

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Response Location: United States, Paducah, Kentucky

When an anonymous donor sent a corporate wellness director a offered to cover the costs for 1,000 COVID-19 test kits and processing, the director created a task force and partnered with two other local entities to create a drive-through testing site. Although the operation required a larger donation from the anonymous donor and the future of being able to restock tests is uncertain, the group has been able to offer free tests to local community members as well those from surrounding areas.

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House-Bound RV Owners Loan Their Idle Vehicles To Frontline Workers In Need

Stephanie O'Neill

May 27, 2020 |

LAist |

Multi-Media |

Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

A chance encounter sparked by a Facebook post led to the creation of RVs 4 MDs, a Facebook group pairing donated recreational vehicles for front-line medical workers who needed to distance themselves from their families while still living at home. Created in late March, the group in its first two months matched 1,460 workers with donated temporary housing. The arrangements can be awkward, with parents camped out in the family home's driveway, unable to have physical contact with their children. But they have enabled medical workers to stay connected with their families at no cost.

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COVID-19 dining out: Restaurants take to the streets to create socially distanced dining rooms as nation reopens

Jessica Guynn

May 21, 2020 |

USA Today |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Warrenton, Virginia

As the U.S attempts to reopen, restaurant owners from California to Florida are expanding their restaurants into nearby outdoor space, including sidewalks and parking lots. In doing so, they are able to offer patrons a safer dining environment, as there is more room to keep tables further apart and follow social distancing precautions, and it also helps restaurants earn more revenue than if they were limited to indoor space. Some city governments are streamlining the process, including Brookhaven, Georgia, which made it free to access short-term permits for outdoor dining.

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Senegal Pledges A Bed For Every Coronavirus Patient — And Their Contacts, Too

Ricci Shryock

May 17, 2020 |

NPR |

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Response Location: Senegal, Dakar

Senegal's success thus far in keeping coronavirus cases at manageable levels is due largely in part to a prioritization of increasing the number of beds available for COVID-19 patients. After years of running epidemic simulations, the Senegalese Health Emergency Operation Center was able to act swiftly when the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, and convert hospital beds into ICU beds and hotel room beds into non-emergent beds.

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COVID-19: Will South Korea's model help save Nigeria's hospital bed shortage?

Ifedayo Ogunyemi

May 15, 2020 |

Nigerian Tribune |

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Response Location: South Korea

As a response to hospital bed shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea developed a strategy that divides individuals who tested positive into four categories – mild, moderate, severe, and extremely severe – and placed those on the low end of the spectrum in self-quarantine or Living Treatment Centers (residential buildings requiring few medical personnel). As Nigeria grapples with the same issue, they look to South Korea as a model, but hesitate on making it work in different cultural contexts.

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