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  • Two Cities Took Different Approaches to Pandemic Court Closures. They Got Different Results.

    July 19, 2022 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, Wichita, Kansas

    To curtail the societal ripple effects of prolonged court closures, Kansas' Sedgwick County courtrooms reopened with precautions just four months after initially shuttering due to COVID-19, and later brought in retired judges to help work through the court's backlog of cases. The Wichita court was able to perform more criminal jury trials at the height of the pandemic than other cities and actually saw homicides decline in 2021 as the nationwide murder rate climbed.

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  • Texas invested millions in mental health after 2018 shooting — Here's how it's working

    June 22, 2022 |

    KXAN-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The state-funded Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium provides mental health care and resources to more than 300 school districts, with one goal of preventing mass shootings. Programs like in-school behavioral telehealth appointments make care more accessible to children who are identified as in-need

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  • Vaccinated at the Ball: A True Story About Trusted Messengers

    June 15, 2022 |

    Word In Black |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Members of a local Black, LGBTQ+ community joined together with Chicago's COVID Rapid Response team to bring COVID-19 vaccinations to the city's Black and Latino LGBTQ+ population — a group that is severely lagging behind the general population in terms of vaccination rates.

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  • Long COVID survivors seek support, treatment from NY and federal programs

    June 06, 2022 |

    The Journal News |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Programs are emerging to help connect people suffering from long COVID-19 with necessary health care and government resources, like the Aftercare program that launched in April 2021. Aftercare uses contact tracing to reach people who reported lingering COVID-19 symptoms to connect them with health experts who help them manage their symptoms and access resources to address their health and social needs like mental health services, help with disability claims, or health insurance subsidies. The Aftercare program has referred more than 50,000 people to long COVID-19 treatment clinics and other aid.

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  • Chicago Offers a Blueprint for Expanding Urban Internet Access

    May 31, 2022 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago Connected is a $50 million four-year program that has already provided high-speed broadband to over 40,000 households in need, representing around 64,000 Chicago public school students, and plans to expand. On-the-ground community outreach in multiple languages was key to connecting residents to the program quickly, which was needed as school went virtual due to COVID-19. The public schools helped identify eligible low-income students whose parents were then contacted by outreach workers.

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  • Happier Employees, Higher Profits: Covid's Surprising Lesson for Restaurants

    May 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Alamos, California

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, owners of the French bistro Bell's took a financial risk and began investing more money in their employees to incentivize working, increase employee satisfaction and retention and overall drive more profits. The decision has since paid off and is reimagining the traditional restaurant structure.

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  • Tackling the supply side of the EMS shortage

    May 18, 2022 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

    To combat the EMS shortage exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a collaboration between a college and emergency services department is working to train paramedics by providing students access to high-end facilities, instructors, and experiences. Similar programs have popped up around the country, specifically in rural areas where the EMS shortage is even more apparent.

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  • How cellphones transformed life in a women's prison in Argentina

    May 03, 2022 |

    Rest of World |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

    As Argentine went into strict quarantine in March 2020 and prison rules got stricter, the Court of Appeals in the Province of Buenos Aires allowed the use of cellphones to inmates to ease some of their isolation. It is one of four provinces that legally implemented this measure to last the span of COVID restrictions, but the ruling is still in place and has allowed inmates to keep in touch with loved ones, study, learn new skills, use digital payments, and even participate in virtual protests,

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  • Inside Nebraska's Surprisingly Effective Covid Strategy

    April 22, 2022 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Nebraska

    Although Nebraska’s governor never ordered a statewide shutdown, shuns mandates, and the state’s vaccination rate is not high, the state has had an efficient and effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nebraska has fared among the best in the country when it comes to health, economic, social, and educational factors. The success is due to a combination of solid pre-existing medical infrastructure, particularly in infectious disease, and efficient state government that allowed the state to function logistically without relying on the federal government.

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  • To find out where the covid pandemic is headed, look here: The sewer

    April 14, 2022 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses a nationwide wastewater monitoring system to detect rising and falling levels of COVID-19 in the population. Infected people shed virus when they use the toilet, even if they don’t have symptoms, alerting officials 4-6 days before people start testing positive. The anonymous and inexpensive monitoring system has been relied on by local and state health officials to run targeted awareness campaigns and shift policies, like mask guidance, to effectively contain outbreaks.

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