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  • In pandemic recovery, New York has had more success than Mass. What explains the gap?

    Dasia Moore, Kay Lazar
    2020-08-28 19:56:57 UTC
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    August 16, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    New York's success in eventually controlling the spread of coronavirus can be attributed to a few key factors. Unlike Massachusetts, which experienced fluctuating COVID-19 infections on its way to recovery, New York has had a steady decline. Strict social distancing guidelines and tough enforcement of businesses that did not adhere to the rules, proved effective in keeping infection rates low. NY also banned indoor dining which was allowed as early as June in MA.

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  • Beating the coronavirus with knives, forks, and moving tables

    Mary Ann Sorrentino
    2020-08-14 14:40:47 UTC
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    August 13, 2020 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Providence, Rhode Island

    Restaurants in Providence, Rhode Island are "repurposing parking lots, waterfronts, and any adjacent land where an al fresco meal can be savored, public health preserved, and restaurant profits protected" during the coronavirus pandemic. Collaborative efforts by various elected officials, health officials, and emergency responders are making the idea to repurpose outdoor areas feasible, and some restaurants have already projected a significant success in profits.

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  • In New Zealand, Life Was Ordinary Again With No Virus Spread, But It Didn't Last

    Laurel Wamsley
    2020-08-11 23:01:53 UTC
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    August 10, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: New Zealand

    New Zealand has been able to nearly eradicate Covid-19 due to rapid intervention strategies taken by the government that were predicated on quickly identifying clusters of cases and implementing rigorous contact tracing. Although the country went 101 days without a single case reported, a few cases have once again surfaced. However, because residents had already been using a contact tracing smartphone app and were "encouraged to add masks to their emergency kits," many were prepared for the onset of any new cases.

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  • Dartmouth Is the Blueprint for NFL Success in 2020. Yes, Dartmouth.

    Andrew Beaton
    2020-08-09 11:26:54 UTC
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    August 05, 2020 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Hanover, New Hampshire

    Dartmouth College's football team reduced injuries and began winning more games after the coaching staff implemented non-contact tactics into practices, such as using robotic tackling dummies in place of the players themselves. The practice was already gaining recognition from other schools, but amid the coronavirus, the NFL is now trying out similar protocols too.

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  • Pescadores de Guanacaste venden por primera vez en ferias del agricultor

    Eduardo Costa
    2021-04-05 01:49:25 UTC
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    July 03, 2020 |

    La Voz de Guanacaste |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, Guanacaste

    La iniciativa Arroz y Frijoles está ayudando a los pescadores de Guanacaste, Costa Rica a sobrevivir los efectos economicos de la pandemia sobre el turismo y sus ingresos. La iniciativa fue iniciada por la Cámara de Pescadores de Guanacaste al empezar la pandemia, y opera de tal manera que el producto de los pescadores se compra a un precio fijo, y luego se vende en un mercado de agricultores. Desde que empezo la iniciativa, la CPG ha comprado 21.600 kilos de producto.

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  • Plan B : Comment rendre une ville (vraiment) cyclable

    Marc Bettinelli
    2021-07-13 16:11:35 UTC
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    June 08, 2020 |

    Le Monde |

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    Response Location: France

    En temps de pandémie, le vélo permet une circulation présentant moins de risque pour la transmission du virus. De nombreuses villes se mettent à développer des infrastructures cyclables. Celles-ci ne sont pas toujours idéales pour les cyclistes et autres acteurs de la mobilité urbaine, mais certaines pratiques apportent des bénéfices.

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  • Dutch Cooperation Made an ‘Intelligent Lockdown' a Success

    Paul Tullis
    2020-06-15 11:38:52 UTC
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    June 05, 2020 |

    Bloomberg Businessweek |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    The Netherlands approach of balancing the potential for future economic hardship with the current risk of Covid-19 spreading has appeared to have helped the country to flatten the curve of cases faster than other areas that implemented mandatory lockdown measures. Although critics of this "controlled distribution" approach point out that the country has still seen thousands of deaths and could see future waves of outbreaks, at this point in time, "the Netherlands has both flattened the curve and kept life tolerable."

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  • Where Do We Grow From Here?

    Emily Stifler Wolfe
    2020-07-04 00:41:24 UTC
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    June 02, 2020 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Bozeman, Montana

    In Montana, a group of professionals were brought together to collaborate on the pandemic recovery effort underway in Bozeman, with the economic development director at the helm. Known as the Bozeman Economic Recovery and Resiliency Team, the group is comprised of 25 members including business leaders, local and state government officials, education leadership, and representatives from tourism and childcare industries, among others. The group was formed at the outset of the pandemic to efficiently communicate constantly-shifting information, ascertain needs, and manage local recovery efforts.

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  • How this country of 97 million kept its coronavirus death toll at zero

    Nectar Gan
    2020-06-01 20:01:09 UTC
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    May 30, 2020 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Vietnam

    Thanks to a speedy early containment effort, rigorous contact tracing and quarantine policies, and effective public communications, Vietnam suffered zero COVID-19 deaths through the first four-plus months of the crisis and a relatively low infection rate overall. The country’s success, notable especially in light of its modest economic and healthcare conditions, began with a strict three-week national lockdown. Since then, businesses and schools reopened, under social-distancing rules. Throughout, the country's elaborate propaganda network spread hygiene messages to a public accustomed to viral outbreaks.

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  • These Unsung Countries Are Vanquishing the Virus

    Will Doig
    2020-07-12 21:59:22 UTC
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    May 22, 2020 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Finland

    During the onset of the pandemic, countries around the world took a variety of different measures to protect its citizens and economies. While some countries continue to be negatively affected by the coronavirus, places like Vietnam, Canada, Croatia, Finland, and New Zealand reacted by taking restrictive measures from the start and have successfully contained the virus. Responses include distributing funds to individuals and businesses on the honors system, closing down everything except grocery stores, hospitals, and pharmacies, as well as rapid implementation of widespread testing.

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  • Solutions journalism…
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  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.

  • You can learn more about how we source, vet, and tag stories here, as well as how we share them. We also have video tutorials in Spanish and French that show how to use the Solutions Story Tracker to find what you need.

  • Story collections are curated by our staff or other partners to explore a theme, pattern, or trend via selected solutions stories and external resources. Some story collections focus on an in-depth exploration of a topic with solutions journalism; others highlight journalists and how they report on topics. Certain story collections include discussion questions and notes, so that educators and community discussion leaders can lead learners to fully engage with the stories.

  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is powered by user submissions. We encourage submissions from journalists, as well as from anyone who has an eye for solutions journalism. Click here to submit. (Why submit? So many reasons!)

  • You can submit a story directly on the Solutions Story Tracker®. You will be prompted to register or log into the Solutions Journalism Network website, if you are already logged in. (It is free to register!) Logging in allows you to track the status of your submissions under My Profile, as well as save your favorite stories, create story collections and story alerts, and access other helpful features of our website.

  • After you submit a story to us and assign it a topic, it is sent to one of our Solutions Story Tracker team members. Our team member evaluates the story for the four qualities of solutions journalism, and on the basics: The story must come from a news outlet and have a date and a byline. If the story meets our criteria, our team tags it accordingly and adds it to the database. If the story falls short of the mark, our team will include the reason why. We include stories in the Story Tracker that meet our standards of solutions journalism. Inclusion does not mean we support the initiatives, policies, organizations or approaches featured in those stories.

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  • Solutions Journalism Network features these stories in the searchable database making them publicly accessible to anyone who wants to search for rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. Any story that is added has the potential to make more impact than its original purpose. Added stories are used in journalism trainings, school curricula, research projects, and independent analysis on issue area trends. This now includes artificial intelligence tools, which are applied for educational value to find stories and support story vetting, as well as to extract insights from the stories. SJN has digital products and newsletters that give new life and exposure to the stories meeting people where they are at. Story data also is used to develop innovative tools to reach the general public with solutions journalism as well as some specific research projects requested by researchers. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of story data or added stories, please contact Lita Tirak.

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