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  • The race to unravel the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the United States

    March 06, 2020 |

    Nature |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    When virologists and genomicists in Seattle, Washington realized that COVID-19 was likely to spread to the United States, they began to research ways to keep vulnerable poplulations safe. So far, early success has come from replicating the Seattle Flu Study, which uses a swab test to "reveal the trail that the flu takes as it passes around households, homeless shelters, office parks and communities in the city," and now investors are putting money towards getting these tests into households.

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  • Paid to Stay Home: Europe's Safety Net Could Ease Toll of Coronavirus

    March 06, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Europe's generous social policies, such as allowing employees to retain their salaries while taking sick time to care for themselves or family members, may help to mitigate the coronavirus outbreak while also safeguarding the economy. Although the long-term impacts are yet unknown, in the short term, government-provided incentives are helping people and businesses stay afloat.

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  • The Dutch have mastered water for a millennium. Could their new approach save New Orleans?

    March 06, 2020 |

    The Times-Picayune |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Hoek Van Holland

    As New Orleans and the Louisiana coast become increasingly vulnerable to rising sea levels, the city is looking to the example of the Netherlands in using nature as a tool in coastal preservation. In the Netherlands, the Maeslant storm surge barrier was built 23 years ago with the ability to block out waters to prevent flooding. In recent years, however, the Dutch have adapted: using green roofs, adding trees as an extra defense in front of levees, and looking to nature more and more to protect cities in the age of climate change.

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  • Bringing freshwater turtles out of their shells and into the spotlight

    March 06, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Assam

    Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises of India (FTTI) is a research and conservation group protecting the 29 species of turtles and tortoises in the country. For founders Anuja Mital and Sneha Dharwadkar, the project is extra important as many of these species are endangered, and they play a crucial role in maintaining balance in river and lake ecosystems. The project has also allowed them to serve as role models for the importance of female researchers feeling comfortable doing important fieldwork.

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  • His Daughter Died Of An Opioid Overdose. So He Built A Treatment Facility In Her Name

    March 05, 2020 |

    American University Radio (WAMU) |

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    Response Location: United States, Hagerstown, Maryland

    Named after his daughter who overdosed, a former narcotics police officer created Brooke's House, a women's treatment facility in Maryland. Combining methodologies and using multiple approaches, the program works to help residents achieve sobriety through counseling and treatment.

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  • South Korea has tested 140,000 people for the coronavirus. That could explain why its death rate is just 0.6% — far lower than in China or the US.

    March 05, 2020 |

    Business Insider |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    South Korea's nationwide coronavirus testing measures are showing that the death rate for the virus may not be as high as initially reported while also offering lessons to other countries about the best practices for mitigating epidemics. Although the United States is now beginning to utilize partnerships to address limited testing procedures, South Korea's response allowed for patients to be diagnosed an an earlier and faster rate.

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  • How organizations, lawsuits are fighting voter suppression in Texas

    March 05, 2020 |

    Corpus Christi Caller Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Civil rights groups used a lawsuit and a vigilant network of activists to defeat an attempt to purge qualified voters from the list of Texas' eligible voters and to guard against ongoing attempts to disenfranchise naturalized citizens and other people of color. In 2019, the Texas Secretary of State's office compiled a list of what it said were as many as 100,000 illegally registered voters. Countering claims of fraud and threats of prosecution, activists forced the state to abandon the effort and oust the secretary of state. A study shows at least 17 million names have been cut from voter lists nationwide.

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  • The College President Who Simply Won't Raise Tuition

    March 05, 2020 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, West Lafayette, Indiana

    Since 2013, Purdue University has frozen its annual tuition at $9,992, a stark contrast to the trend of ballooning costs at most U.S. institutions of higher education. The president has focused on savings generated from "a couple of big things, and lots of little things.” However, some have expressed concern that this model sacrifices too much and has changed the once-collaborative culture of the college.

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  • [크랩] IQ 180, 39세 장관이 해결한 대만 ‘마스크 대란'

    March 05, 2020 |

    KBS 뉴스 |

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    Response Location: Taiwan

    신종 코로나바이러스 확산 초기, 마스크 대란에 대처하기 위해 대만 정부는 '마스크 실명제', '마스크 맵' 서비스 등을 주도적으로 시행하며 위기에 적극적으로 대응하는 모습을 보여주었습니다.

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  • “We Are Not Lost Causes”

    March 05, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    In Rochester, NY, the Center for Teen Empowerment, a nonprofit that trains youth in community organizing, personal development, and anti-violence, is working to bring kids off the street and into safety. The program, which started in Boston, is centered on four ideas: jobs (paying the youth hired as organizers), teamwork, agency (letting them build their own activist agendas), and peer influence. While hard to evaluate because of its situational, qualitative nature, city officials, including law enforcement, point to the program as a factor in the decrease in violence across the city.

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