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  • Is Taiwan's impressive response to COVID-19 possible in Canada?

    March 19, 2020 |

    CBC |

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    Response Location: Taiwan

    Although Taiwan and Canada saw the beginning of coronavirus outbreaks within days of each other, Taiwan has been able to better contain the spread. Using tactics such as integrating "its health insurance database with its immigration database" and using the military to help produce protective masks for medical workers, the Taiwanese government's aggressive approach offers lessons in how to use big data and regulations to stem the spread of infectious diseases.

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  • Farming Insects to Save Lemurs

    March 19, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Madagascar

    In Madagascar, insect researchers, regional conservationists, and humanitarian organizations have teamed up to promote the farming of crickets as a way to help preserve forests, save animals, and fight malnutrition. Although the pilot project is still fairly new, it has been well-received my communities and studies have already shown that consuming cricket powder has substantial benefits for children who are underweight.

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  • Engineers 3D-print patented valves for free to save coronavirus patients in Italy

    March 18, 2020 |

    Global News |

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    Response Location: Italy, Brescia

    When a hospital in Italy ran the risk of running out of a medical valve that was necessary to help treat patients suffering from COVID-19, an engineering company stepped in to fill the gap by 3D printing the valve. Choosing "patients over patents," the company was able to mass produce 100 valves – at a fraction of the cost of a regular valve – which have already helped at least 10 patients.

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  • ‘This is like having a fire, but having it almost every day:' Sunnyvale agency responds amid Bay Area coronavirus outbreak

    March 18, 2020 |

    San Jose Mercury News |

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    Response Location: United States, Sunnyvale, California

    Sunnyvale Community Services in California is staffed by volunteers – such as older residents and community and corporate groups – but the coronavirus outbreak has forced many to stay home, so City of Sunnyvale staff are helping to address the gap. The agency, which helps deliver resources to those in need, is using the newfound volunteers to help with their weekly food distribution efforts.

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  • How the disease detectives on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic track an outbreak

    March 16, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    The CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service Program trains individuals how to perform contact tracing in order to help slow the spread of infectious diseases. Success from this strategy has been reported in South Korea regarding the coronavirus, and now the U.S. officers are deploying to find out more about "how contagious it is, how it spreads, the severity of the illness, what groups are most likely to be affected."

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  • Healthy Eating Is Key To Well Being. So Why Is Hospital Food Always So Bad?

    March 16, 2020 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Davis, California

    In an attempt to offer healthier meals and reduce stigma around hospital food, hospitals are reinventing their dining services by hiring professional chefs, nutritionists, and dieticians. At the UC Davis Medical Center, this type of approach has already shown success with a growth in consumers, including an influx of locals from the community even coming to eat at the hospital cafe.

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  • L.A. Unified plans for teaching by television after canceling all large gatherings

    March 12, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles Unified Schools is the second-largest school system, and a quarter of enrolled families lack adequate broadband access for online studies. This presented challenges as to how school could proceed, so the district partnered with public broadcaster PBS SoCal/KCET to prepare programming that would air on television in an effort to continue students' studies. They are offered on three different channels in order to provide for the different grade levels. This is their current solution to the question of schooling as the pandemic constantly updates.

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  • A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia

    March 10, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Identifying the metagenomic sequencing for new outbreaks of viruses can help to better assess how the virus is spreading, which in turn helps health officials figure out how to slow down the contagion. In the midst of a coronavirus outbreak, a tool that was first used to during the SARS outbreak is now being used to track Covid-19 in under-resourced places such as Cambodia.

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  • What the U.S. Can Learn From Taiwan's Response to Coronavirus

    March 10, 2020 |

    U.S. News & World Report |

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    Response Location: Taiwan, Taipei

    After being caught off-guard during the 2003 SARS epidemic, Taiwan developed a public health infrastructure to help prepare them for another. With the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, their number of cases have stayed low because of heightened surveillance for those who travel, the linking of insurance and immigration databases, combating misinformation through an educational campaign, and early plans for child care, businesses, and schools.

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  • Stemming the tide

    March 04, 2020 |

    Explore Big Sky |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    As a neurological disorder known as chronic wasting disease spreads among wildlife herds like deer and elk in Montana, the state is trying to increase testing of the fatal disease and understand if it can be transmitted to humans. By learning from the failures in Wyoming, a state agency offered free statewide testing to hunters resulting in new positives in areas that they might have missed, which will help them track how the disease spreads across the landscape.

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