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  • Poop may tell us when the coronavirus lockdown will end

    April 29, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Researchers and public health experts across the world are turning to "wastewater-based-epidemiology" as a practice that could help trace and track the spread of COVID-19. This methodology has already proved successful in helping mitigate diseases such as polio in Israel and track the usage of illicit drugs in Australia. Most recently, in both France and the Netherlands, early sewage samples have revealed useful data about the coronavirus outbreak.

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  • Rhode Island Pushes Aggressive Testing, a Move That Could Ease Reopening

    April 28, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

    Rhode Island is one of the few states in America that has worked to establish widespread testing for the coronavirus. Although gaining tests has been a challenge, local officials have concentrated efforts on eliminating barriers for people that require a test. This has included placing testing sites in the middle of "dense, working-class cities," making testing free with a referral and encouraging preemptive contact tracing through journal writing.

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  • Teachers use high and low-tech means to reach English Language Learners during coronavirus crisis

    April 28, 2020 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    To reach English Language Learners, who are particularly hard to contact during the coronavirus pandemic as a result of language barriers and other factors, teachers are trying low-tech approaches. From letters to phone calls to recorded lessons, instructors are hoping to minimize the potential learning loss during this extended break.

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  • Green stimulus: Pakistan sets virus-idled to work planting trees

    April 28, 2020 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Islamabad

    A solution in Pakistan to the economic distress caused by the coronavirus pandemic is also tackling another crisis at the same time: climate change. A program called 10 Billion Tree Tsunami employs workers who lost their job due to the quarantine by having them plant saplings all over the country. Wages aren't high, but it does offer workers an opportunity to feed their family until the crisis passes. The jobs created are focused in rural areas for women and other young people. The program is one of the few continuing through the pandemic, and already they have planted 30 million trees.

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  • How an emergency food network grew out of the coronavirus crisis to deliver 90,000 free meals to Coloradans

    April 27, 2020 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    To provide community support during the coronavirus pandemic, several businesses and organizations in Denver joined together to create the Denver Metro Emergency Food Network. Using donations, the newly founded nonprofit prepares and delivers free meals "to hungry and homebound Coloradans."

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  • How an Alberta text messaging program is helping people cope with COVID-19

    April 27, 2020 |

    St. Albert Today |

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    Response Location: Canada, Alberta

    An Alberta Health Services’ text messaging service called Text4Hope is giving people text messages to help them cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. The texts, written by mental health therapists, use cognitive behavioral therapy, helping people disrupt the constant stream of negative thoughts that happen during traumatic times. So far, over 30,000 people have signed up.

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  • $1 testing kits: Senegal's approach to coronavirus

    April 27, 2020 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Senegal, Dakar

    As the COVID-19 pandemic picked up across the world, Senegal, taking lessons from its experiences with Ebola, acted quickly. Measures like hard travel restrictions and lockdowns, daily information briefings and broadcasts, subsidizing hotels for isolations and quarantine, fever checks at most public locations, and cheap and accessible testing. Key to all of this has been the localized context – understanding what will work best for Senegal citizens, especially those in remote areas.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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