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  • Coronavirus Crisis Opens Access To Online Opioid Addiction Treatment

    April 23, 2020 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Walnut Creek, California

    Addiction experts have been offering online counseling for addiction patients for years but have also been working to change a federal law that required patients seeking medications to help with withdrawals to first make an in-person appointment. The coronavirus pandemic has now expedited that change, and with the regulation lifted, doctors are able to offer medication-assisted treatment via online appointments in addition to the counseling.

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  • Bremer Firma entwickelt Gewebe, das Coronaviren abtötet

    April 23, 2020 |

    Weser-Kurier |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Bis zu 72 Stunden kann sich das Coronavirus auf Oberflächen halten. Die Bremer Firma Statex hat ein Gewebe entwickelt, das die Viren innerhalb von Minuten abtötet. Der Erfolg liegt bei 99,98 Prozent, sagt eine Studie.

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  • These coal communities are protecting sick miners from COVID-19 and pushing Congress for more support

    April 23, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Tennessee

    In Tennessee and Kentucky, rural coal communities are drawing on their decades-old networks of mutual aid to protect coal miners from COVID-19. At the legislative level, the National Black Lung Association and other Appalachian groups are coming together to push for more coal miner protections in coronavirus stimulus bills. At the local level, communities are organizing phone trees to share necessary information, helping with grocery and prescription delivery, and providing greater access to broadband for those without reliable internet.

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  • Contact tracing for COVID-19 starts on a small scale in Philly

    April 23, 2020 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    In Philadelphia, volunteers with the University of Pennsylvania have launched a small-scale effort in contact tracing, a method in which disease detectives track and monitor the interactions and movements of known infected people. Both time- and labor-intensive, contact tracing is most effective on the front end of an outbreak, when there are fewer cases. The university has trained a few dozen volunteers, though limited access to testing and violations of privacy remain concerns.

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  • Campaña Juntos por Guanacaste entregó canastas básicas a 577 familias de Santa Cruz

    April 23, 2020 |

    La Voz de Guanacaste |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, guana

    Organizaciones privadas con y sin fines de lucro crearon una red de recaudación y entrega de alimentos para las familias afectadas por los cierres por la pandemia por COVID-19. Muchas de las organizaciones ya trabajaban en el área y lograron adaptar sus bases de datos y estructuras para asegurar que el recurso llegara a las personas más afectadas en la región de Guanacaste, Costa Rica, donde trabajaron.

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  • Report for America is sending 225 journalists into local newsrooms around the country

    April 23, 2020 |

    Poynter |

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    Response Location: United States

    Since launching in 2017, the nonprofit Report For America has subsidized hundreds of journalists' salaries to rebuild local-news outlets' ability to provide trusted news coverage of local public affairs. Though there is no lack of available journalists or a need for local news coverage, the program takes aim at fixing a broken business model. The latest cohort of 225 journalists sent to 162 local newsrooms is up from 59. Available to "emerging journalists" who can commit to two years of work, RFA pays half their salaries. The other half is split by the news organization and community donors.

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  • Cultivating communities of care

    April 23, 2020 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder County, Colorado

    A mutual aid group in Boulder Country has directed their efforts towards making sure people are accounted for and that they have the goods they need during the coronavirus pandemic. Although the effort is just one of many both in the county and nationwide, they've responded to 70 requests from community members so far. "Help is great if it comes from the government or if it comes from a state apparatus, that’s fine," explains one of the organizers. "But you don’t have to wait if you can get organized with people in your community."

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  • The farmers bringing their fields indoors

    April 23, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    To "ease the strain" on the food supply chain, some restaurants in large cities, such as Berlin and Paris, are turning to their own crop production using in-house vertical farm systems. Although these farms have not yet yielded a profit, consumers have expressed that the produce grow in-house tastes better and investors have given billions in funding betting, "urbanites wanting this kind of food."

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  • Portugal's answer to the heroin crisis Audio icon

    April 22, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: Portugal, Lisbon

    When faced with an opioid crisis, the government in Portugual made a drastic decision to decriminalize drug use. This shift in policy allowed for a shift in perspective – addiction problems could now be treated as a public health issue, rather than a criminal issue. This approach resulted in a significant decrease in overdoses, and is now a model that U.S. cities, such as Philadelphia, are looking at to learn from.

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  • Louisiana Hotelier Offers Free Rooms To Medical Workers

    April 22, 2020 |

    KUNM |

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    Response Location: United States, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    After learning that doctors weren't going home after their shifts for fear of possibly transmitting the coronavirus to their families, a Louisiana hotellier began offering free rooms to medical workers. While the practice isn't financially viable forever, in the short-term, it has been implemented at his other hotels across the country, and healthcare workers are saying it has made a difference for them.

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