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Making a difference: Madison makers build safety equipment for frontlines of COVID-19 fight

Natalie Yahr

April 15, 2020 |

The Cap Times |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

Innovation labs, makerspaces, and fabrication laboratories are just a few of the entities that helping to address the shortage of personal protective equipment in hospitals by creating face shields and masks. In Madison, Wisconsin, the design for a custom-made medical face shield prototype created by Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab only uses three materials and has been approved by the university's infection control department. To help others join in efforts, the engineers made the design available online and it has now "been picked up by manufacturers around the world."

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Pittsburgh nonprofit providing resources, help for African American community amid COVID-19

Ryan Houston

April 15, 2020 |

WPXI-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

In cities across the United States, the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately impacting communities of color in part due to a lack of information being provided to these areas. A non-profit in Pittsburg is working to close that gap by hosting a weekly virtual townhall that connects the black community with doctors, state lawmakers and health care workers.

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Fighting depression, door to door

Reha Kansara

April 15, 2020 |

BBC |

Video |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Uganda

In Uganda, an initiative known as StrongMinds is helping low- and middle-income women deal with depression. To address the shortage of psychiatrists in the region, StrongMinds trains former patients who have completed 12 weeks of group therapy to be facilitators who make home visits.

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‘Everyone wants to do their bit': The volunteers sewing scrubs for NHS workers

Emma Reynolds

April 15, 2020 |

Positive.News |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, London, England

In the United Kingdom, a grassroots network called Scrub Hub is gathering groups of volunteers to sew scrubs for hospital workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic. The groups are self-organizing, raising money on their own to buy the fabric, and have so far gathered thousands of people across the UK to help.

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This Orange County company has gone from making hair look cool to fighting coronavirus

Gustavo Arellano

April 13, 2020 |

Los Angeles Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Santa Ana, California

The owners of an iconic pomade and Chicano hipster fashion manufacturing factory in Santa Ana, California have made the switch to hand sanitizer manufacturing in an attempt to reemploy furloughed employees during the coronavirus pandemic. Functioning like a start-up, their new product goes to hospitals, postal workers, UPS drivers, and cashiers and helps to spread the message to the Latino community that this virus should be taken seriously.

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Osprey Packs, Alpacka Raft, and MakerLab producing masks and PPE to meet local COVID-19 needs

Mark Duggan

April 12, 2020 |

KSUT |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Cortez, Colorado

Businesses in the Four Corners region of the United States have shifted their production from outdoor equipment to medical equipment and have successfully solicited people from the community to help. Although the businesses don't necessarily have the capacity or facilities available to prevent medical-grade equipment and have had to rethink how their production regimes work, they have been able to make at-home protective equipment and items such as hospital gowns.

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Local Groups Sew Face Masks During Shortage

Jack Binder

April 07, 2020 |

Grady Newsource |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

Citizens across Northeast Georgia are participating in grassroots community efforts to help supply masks for health workers. A Facebook group called, "Mask Making for Athens Area Healthcare Workers," is providing guidance and support in a myriad of ways— from sewing masks, delivering masks, or teaching others how to sew. The group has donated over 2,400 masks to 30 organizations and have received requests for over 4,400 more masks.

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Design Professionals Making Gowns and Masks for Medical Workers

Sarah Pilla

April 06, 2020 |

Spectrum News 1 SoCal |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

In Los Angeles, fashion industry professionals are working together to create hospital gowns from donated materials for use in hospitals. The project is also helping to employ those who have been laid off from their retail jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Covid-19 is ravaging black communities. A Milwaukee neighborhood is figuring out how to fight back.

Robert Samuels

April 06, 2020 |

The Washington Post |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

In Wisconsin, the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately impacting black communities, but local residents are finding ways to help their fellow neighbors in times of crisis. Tactics including increasing testing in black communities, reframing rhetoric about the pandemic as acts of crime, and forming a local community group to solicit and deliver food donations, are helping this Milwaukee County step in to address concerns where the federal government hasn't.

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‘The doctor won't see you now.' Rethinking health care delivery in a crisis.

Lenora Chu

April 06, 2020 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

To contain the coronavirus and manage overwhelmed health care systems, nurses and doctors are returning from retirement, recent medical graduates are being asked to report early to their hospitals and telehealth is gaining viability and validity. Across the world, nations are working to rapidly reform the health care system to better care for this influx of patients, and some of these changes may last beyond the pandemic.

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