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  • Living with COVID in Toronto: When you feel alone even though 'we're all in this together'

    During the 1918 influenza pandemic, a sophisticated network of volunteer groups mobilized across Toronto to help people in need. The organizations coordinated with the U.S. Postal Service to distribute survey cards to homes where people were isolating to gather requests for food aid and other assistance.

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  • Small town, big numbers

    The Clearwater Canyon Pharmacy helped organize an easily accessible COVID-19 vaccine clinic in a rural, elderly town, increasing its vaccine status to 75%, an unprecedented number in the area.

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  • How Nourish New York Is Still Feeding NYC

    Nourish New York connects small farmers to food pantries to bring fresh, healthy, and culturally-relevant food to those in need in response to the food distribution crisis caused by the pandemic. Though it was never intended to be permanent, the organization’s existence has since been signed into law and its budget has doubled to $50 million and it has become a reliable source of food throughout the state.

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  • Anti-vax preachers and the race to vaccinate South Sudan

    Crown Agents is an international development organization working to get people vaccinated against COVID-19, despite vaccine shortages and misinformation from anti-vaxxers.

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  • The dining shed—soon to be banned in NYC—awakened a sense of what's possible with the city street

    At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, many restaurants in New York City introduced “dining and drinking sheds,” ad-hoc sidewalk structures that allowed patrons to gather outside, where it was generally considered safer. Cities across the country followed suit, reimagining public spaces and their shared use. The spaces also brought customers to businesses that struggled to stay afloat during pandemic fears and shutdowns.

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  • Vaccinating the Amazon: Hundreds of Indigenous languages, climate, terrain and more all complicate a massive effort

    Hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in remote regions of the Amazon have been vaccinated for COVID-19 in part thanks to programs that send indigenous vaccinators with non-mRNA vaccines to remote villages. There, they meet with community leaders and work to gain the community’s trust before vaccinating those who are willing. Non-mRNA vaccines are used due to the refrigeration needed for mRNA doses, but they also make it easier to address misconceptions associated with the new and unfamiliar mRNA technology.

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  • On Kashmir's border, health workers fight Covid vaccine battles

    In an effort to fight misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, teams of healthcare professionals travel door-to-door in rural communities where vaccination rates are low and COVID cases are high.

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  • How a rural hospital broke language barriers to provide COVID vaccines to immigrants

    One rural hospital in Indiana vaccinated hundreds of immigrants from Central America by working with trusted community leaders and setting up a Hispanic Health Task Force. Health officials held vaccine clinics alongside trusted community members at locations that were familiar to residents, like a local Catholic church that offers Spanish-language services. The hospital and task force initially established community connections to distribute information about COVID-19, so they were able to utilize the connections to increase vaccination rates once the vaccine rolled out.

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  • Cooperativas de reparto en bici vs apps

    Repartidores en bicicleta en la Ciudad de México aprenden de las experiencias de cooperativismo de repartidores de otros países, como Francia, y ante la emergencia del COVID-19 y las situaciones vividas durante la pandemia , se organizan en colectivos para repratir producto, que luego se transforman en empresas cooperativas que les da mejores garantías y les permite generar sus propio modelo de negocio.

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  • Restaurant Resiliency Program's Rocky Start Tests East Harlem Restaurants

    The Restaurant Resiliency Program, which was adapted as a government initiative during COVID, tied up restaurants with charities with the aim of ensuring that vulnerable communities had access to meals while the restaurants were able to keep their business running in those uncertain times. However, when the funding abruptly ended on February 3 without reaching all the beneficiary restaurants, it showed how the much-needed program required better implementation and thought.

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