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  • California readies army of coronavirus detectives Audio icon

    May 05, 2020 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    California state government is pivoting to a tactic that will allow for state employees to be reassigned and retrained to help efforts towards implementing contact tracing. Only one-third of the state's local health departments are performing contact tracing in some capacity, but the new training – designed in partnership between the government and two universities – will help the state reach the necessary increase required to assess the pandemic.

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  • A volunteer army has answered Colorado's need for masks. Denver's jails are one recent beneficiary.

    May 04, 2020 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Across Colorado, grassroots groups have come together to create homemade masks for the state’s most vulnerable populations to protect against COVID-19. Two of those populations are Denver’s Downtown Detention Center and Denver County Jail. Groups like Dena’s Mask Making Army, the Mask Mavens, and even some AA and sober living communities have rallied together – virtually, of course – to use their sewing skills to fill the mask needs, about 3 masks per person, for those experiencing incarceration.

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  • Northeast Georgia Mask Production Continues With No End In Sight

    April 30, 2020 |

    Grady Newsource |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    Volunteer groups in Georgia are making cloth masks for non-coronavirus patients at local hospitals so that personal protective equipment can be reserved for medical staff in direct contact with COVID-19 patients. Although these masks do not provide the same kind of protection as medically regulated masks, they do serve as a back-up and thousands have been delivered to area hospitals.

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  • Utah Guard soldiers bring their language skills to a new battlefront — as contact tracers in war against coronavirus

    April 27, 2020 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    To contain coronavirus, Utah has enabled contact tracing that utilizes state employees to make phone calls to those who have potentially been exposed to the virus but many they call do not speak English. To address the language barrier, members from the Utah National Guard’s 300th Military Intelligence Brigade – who serve on the linguistic unit – are volunteering to provide translations.

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  • Philly garden activists are shipping millions of seeds to a nation fretting over food access during coronavirus pandemic

    April 27, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Across Philadelphia, people are turning to seeds to source their food instead of grocery stores and supply chains, which have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Philadelphia is home to the Cooperative Gardens Commission, helping people across the United States practice safe gardening, providing mentoring for novices, and packaging and sending seedlings. It’s just one of many localized garden initiatives working to make sure their communities and neighbors have fresh, sustainable food.

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  • COVID19: In Uganda, volunteers on bicycles are filling the gaps to deliver HIV drugs

    April 27, 2020 |

    Stories for Human Rights and Social Inclusion |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

    Strict social distancing and stay-at-home orders – including the suspension of public transportation – in Uganda during the coronavirus pandemic have made if difficult for those who need anti-retroviral (ARVs) drugs to regularly access the medications. Volunteers, however, are filling the gap by creating a detailed delivery strategy and then delivering the medications to their fellow community members by bicycle.

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  • How San Francisco's Chinatown Avoided Covid-19 Panic

    April 24, 2020 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    It wasn't until first cases of coronavirus were recorded in the United States that San Francisco and other U.S. cities took action to mitigate the spread, but in Chinatown, precautions started much earlier and the preparations seem to have worked. With only three recorded cases in Chinatown, the residents credit trust in authorities, community-driven communications, heightened hygiene practices, and the local Chinese Hospital, "which has strong ties to the community it serves."

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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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  • City Nature Challenge Can Help Us Find Resilience and Mindfulness at Home

    April 22, 2020 |

    Texas Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Throughout the United States, an annual community science competition known as the City Nature Challenge (CNC), has brought residents together to document research-grade observations as a means of locating and identifying species with conservation needs. Although it's yet to be seen how this competition will fare during the coronavirus pandemic, in past years, thousands of observations have been made representing hundreds of species.

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  • New York Needed Ventilators. So They Developed One in a Month.

    April 20, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    After learning that the U.S. would likely face a shortage of ventilators during the coronavirus pandemic, a group of "scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, physicians and regulatory experts" collaborated to design an automatic resuscitator that can be used to help "less critically ill patients." The streamlined creation comes with an affordable price tag, making it more scalable for use in rural areas or less developed regions, and has also been approved by the F.D.A. for use in hospitals.

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