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  • Traveling Nurses, Doctors Fill Gaps In Rural Coverage Ahead Of COVID-19

    March 23, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Barstow, California

    Traveling clinicians are being assigned to rural regions of the U.S. to play a part in helping small, understaffed hospitals respond to the coronavirus outbreak. To make this process easier and more efficient and offer the flexibility that most rural hospitals need, many states have eased licensing requirements "making it easier for travel nurses to move from state to state."

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  • Medical Students, Sidelined for Now, Find New Ways to Fight Coronavirus

    March 23, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Medical students have found creative ways to pitch in during the Coronavirus pandemic when they are not yet certified to work with patients. Students across the country are organizing to help out by doing things like offering childcare for medical workers and sourcing personal protective equipment from a range of businesses. The students themselves say that they are happy to do "anything we can do to relieve burden on the real heroes.”

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  • In Seattle, School Is Out, But Lunch Is Still In

    March 23, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    After Seattle schools closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, school staff quickly mobilized to ensure there would still be a way to distribute free food to students and their families. As the crisis unfolds, the distribution model will likely evolve to best meet the need, organizers explain.

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  • How volunteers from tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Google built a coronavirus-tracking site in six days

    March 23, 2020 |

    CNBC |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Volunteers from tech companies collaborated with epidemiologists to create a Covid-19 tracking site that works to monitor the spread of the virus and help people know if they have been in contact with anyone who may have been infected. Although registration to the site is still short of the goal number, 10,000 people have already provided their information.

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  • Philly area mental health professionals offer free therapy for health care workers

    March 22, 2020 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    As counseling and therapy sessions increasingly move online in order to comply with national stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic, a group of mental healthcare professionals in Philadelphia are offering free mini-sessions to medical professionals who are on the frontlines. A number of provisions and protocols have been removed in order to make the transition to telehealth easier, which has helped allow for sessions to be booked and structured more efficiently for both the patient and the doctor.

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  • Can't Get Tested? Maybe You're in the Wrong Country

    March 20, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Australia

    The coronavirus pandemic has been contained in varying degrees depending on the country, but early data is showing that the countries which decentralized their approach to testing manufacturing have faired better at mitigation. Unlike the U.S. and U.K which were both hesitant to implement proactive measures and chose a centralized approach to testing, Australia, Korea, and Singapore "turned to networks of public and private laboratories to develop tests," which helped more people get tested as a faster pace.

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  • Crowdsourcing to Fight a Pandemic

    March 20, 2020 |

    Route Fifty |

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    Response Location: United States

    To address those that have been specifically impacted by economic crash due to coronavirus and to slow the spread, cities across the United States are enacting comprehensive measures to help. From a halt on all utility shutoffs to releasing inmates who have nearly completed their sentences or are being held pretrial on cash bail, local governments across the nation are looking for ways to address how the pandemic is impacting the most vulnerable.

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  • As Coronavirus Looms, Mask Shortage Gives Rise to Promising Approach

    March 20, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Omaha, Nebraska

    As hospitals are forced to reuse protective masks during the coronavirus pandemic, researchers at the University of Nebraska are finding ways to decontaminate the masks, including with ultraviolet light.

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  • Distilleries Turning Raw Ingredients Into the Most Needed Supplies

    March 20, 2020 |

    NBCLX |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Because they have the appropriate ingredients and facilities, Deep Ellum Distillery is making hand santizer and offering it for free to anyone who needs it. They are also endorsing people to order food to-go in order to support other local restaurants during the pandemic. Distilleries across the country are doing the same thing to help out their neighbors.

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  • This virtual tip jar helps Philly out-of-work food industry employees during the coronavirus Audio icon

    March 19, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    As restaurants across the nation have been forced to close their doors during the coronavirus pandemic, some are turning to creative means to help account for the loss of revenue. In Philadelphia, restaurants have created a virtual tip jar to encourage patrons to "donate a tip" to a person or business while in San Francisco a restaurant owner has created a Facebook group that helps connect out of work servers with childcare jobs.

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