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  • As residents at Milwaukee County nursing homes contracted and died of coronavirus, administrators and local officials kept it to themselves

    April 24, 2020 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, West Allis, Wisconsin

    After the coronavirus outbreak devastated a nursing home in Wisconsin unbeknownst to the residents' family members and the public, advocates and lawmakers called for more transparency from the facility. The agency, joining other care facilities in the state and nation, is now reporting cases according to newly implemented protocols regarding transparency and timeliness, as a means of helping "family members and health care workers plan for their safety."

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  • Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the Way

    April 24, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Australia, Sydney

    With the goal of containing the spread of Covid-19, the national governments in Australia and New Zealand took an approach that was predicated on letting public health experts take the lead. Although this approach – which led to early and aggressive restrictions of movement – was not met favorably by all at first, it has proved successful so far, leading both countries to reset the goal to eliminating the virus rather than just containing it.

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  • An impromptu drive-through at a Sikh temple to feed neighbors now helps thousands daily

    April 24, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Riverside, California

    The Sikh community in Riverside, California—starting with the United Sikh Mission and the Riverside Sikh Temple—has provided thousands of masks and more than 40,000 homemade hot meals to healthcare professionals and anyone who needs it. They also have sent more than 1,000 meals a day to nursing homes in nearby counties and deliver meals to four local hospitals. The efforts have received community funding, and they have no plans to stop anytime soon because, "there are no days off for hunger."

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  • How a Group of Political Novices Ended Gerrymandering in Michigan

    April 24, 2020 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Voters Not Politicians (VPN) is a grassroots initiative that, with the help over 4,000 volunteers who knocked on 125,000 doors and canvassed at public events, collected the 400,000 signatures needed to get an anti-gerrymandering initiative on the statewide ballot. The initiative passed with 61% of the vote in 2018 and requires district boundaries be drawn by average citizens. The group’s founder also started The People, another group to help residents in other states apply VPNs model to stop gerrymandering. So far, residents in Florida, Virginia, and New Hampshire are at various stages of applying the model.

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  • The fire we need

    April 24, 2020 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Yurok Reservation, California

    The Indigenous Peoples Burning Network works with a group of other similar networks with the shared goal of promoting prescribed fire in a positive and safe manner that will help local ecosystems and minimize the risk of unintentional wildfires. Since controlled burning has been part of Indigenous communities for much of their long history, there is an opportunity for Indigenous leaders and local fire experts to learn from each other.

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  • Coronavirus en Islandia: pruebas masivas y gratuitas, una apuesta difícil de replicar en el mundo

    April 24, 2020 |

    La Nación (Costa Rica) |

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    Response Location: Iceland

    Este artículo explicativo analiza cómo Islandia controló la pandemia por el COVID-19 usando medidas especiales: confinamiento parcial, pruebas masivas a todo el país sin cerrar fronteras para el turismo y viajes de civiles. El Gobierno se alió con un laboratorio de genética líder en Europa para ser el país que más tests ha realizado a su población (17% de los habitantes).

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  • Ramadan In The Age Of Coronavirus: Some Colorado Muslims View Isolation As An Opportunity To Grow In Their Faith

    April 24, 2020 |

    Colorado Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    An Islamic organization called Downtown Denver’s Islamic Center is helping members of their community adjust to the quarantine and maintain their spiritual practice. All services and counseling has been moved online, and their preexisting food assistance program is still going on, albeit adjusted to accommodate for the shortage of volunteers during the quarantine. They even have many one-on-one phone calls with people to work through specific issues. It's not perfect, and they still want to do more, but for now they are serving a great spiritual and communal need.

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  • Meet the Women Who Detonate Land Mines in Colombia's Former War Zones

    April 24, 2020 |

    Teen Vogue |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Caquetá

    In Colombia, the organization Humanity & Inclusion has hired women in local areas like Caquetá to help demine formerly war-torn lands. In areas with violent histories, trust is crucial, thus the hiring of local residents who can gain community trust and access more information about where landmines might be. But with the risk of instability, the future of this work has yet to be determined.

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  • McDo réquisitionné, autogestion : les collectifs de quartiers nourrissent des milliers de Marseillais

    April 24, 2020 |

    Basta Mag |

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    Response Location: France, Marseille

    Depuis le début du confinement, des citoyens organisent des collectes et des distributions de nourriture au profit des personnes les plus touchées par le ralentissement économique à Marseille - avec une efficacité exemplaire.

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  • Utah And New Mexico Lead The Region In COVID-19 Testing. Here's How They've Done It Audio icon

    April 24, 2020 |

    KUNR |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Deploying a state-wide COVID-19 testing strategy requires coordinating both public and private-industry stakeholders. In Utah and New Mexico, the appointment of “testing czars,” or public health leaders in charge of coordinating testing, has led to targeted, successful strategies to ramp up testing. These “testing czars” work to coordinate with commercial and public labs to find supplies and address bottlenecks. Suppliers work to connect via conference call to discuss logistics, allowing for successful scaling in both rural and urban testing strategies.

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