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  • Want to reopen schools? Summer camps show how complicated it'll be.

    August 27, 2020 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: United States

    80 percent of overnight camps across the country have shuttered down due to pandemic. Camps that reopened had to change how they operate, by using a range of practices from apps to field guides, some have been able to safely reopen.

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  • How do you teach antiracist curriculum to the youngest students?

    August 27, 2020 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    Students and educators across the country are discussing how to implement anti-racism curriculum in the classroom. Although it can be challenging, educators are using a myriad of methods to teach students about racism. “We are a part of the curriculum, the way that we show up, the way that we enter spaces.”

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  • Project Uses AI to Maximize Meal Delivery to Students in Need

    August 27, 2020 |

    Government Technology |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Using AI technology, home address data, and algorithms, the Metro21 Institute at Carnegie Mellon was able to find the best school bus routes to deliver school meals to students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The solution wouldn’t have worked with the help of a community of partners, leaders, and volunteers. “It truly has taken a village.”

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  • Could bartering become the new buying in a changed world?

    August 26, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: England, London

    Bartering has surged in popularity as neighbors and community members seek hard-to-find items during the pandemic. Groups with thousands of members have emerged, and people are trading household items as well as their time in the form of piano lessons, help around the house, language coaching and more. Businesses have also benefited from bartering and have increased their yearly business by 10 to 15 percent by swapping services with other entrepreneurs.

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  • Toward a Cure: Cities Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis

    August 26, 2020 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Milwaukee was one of the first U.S. cities to show that communities of color were disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic because of a framework that had been established and implemented after the city and county declared racism a public health crisis. The resolution allowed for city officials to track data that framed "disparities in health outcomes through a racial lens." Now, 70 other jurisdictions have made similar declarations and additional efforts are underway to address a range of health issues tied to racial trends.

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  • In Safe Hands: First complex heart surgery at Reddington Hospital a huge success despite COVID-19

    August 26, 2020 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Victoria Island, Lagos State

    A partnership between a Nigerian hospital and a cardiac interventionist group is helping to "bridge the gap in availability of quality cardiac and critical care services" for patients who are in need of care. Although the system was first tested unexpectedly during the coronavirus pandemic, it has shown early success in building and training local specialists to complete cardiac surgeries.

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  • How innovators are using 3D printing to make medical parts

    August 25, 2020 |

    Nation Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Milimani

    In parts of Kenya, engineers are using 3D printing to produce medical equipment to help hospitals that are facing a shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the cost of the material used in the designs is high, the products are customizable and can be produced at a high rate of speed.

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  • Many COVID Test-Seekers Lost in Translation at City-Run Testing Sites, Say Staff

    August 24, 2020 |

    The City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In the run-up to the start of the 2020-21 school year, New York City Health + Hospitals ran COVID testing sites that each were supposed to provide telephone links to language interpreters in more than 200 languages. More than 40% of all NYC school students live in homes where English is not the primary language. In many cases, the test site staffs could not make use of the translation service, either because the phones were inaccessible or the service took too long to gain access to.

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  • The Forgotten Stones That Still Inspire Turks to Help Their Neighbors

    August 24, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Turkey, Istanbul

    Building on a history of anonymous charity, a mosque in northern Istanbul started a pop-up communal food bank to help those most impacted by the pandemic. The initiative is one of several mutual aid efforts underway in the municipality, with each paying homage to the nation's historical use of a charity stone - a place where "people who had money would leave some on top of the stone, and those who didn’t would take some, according to their need."

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  • Staff at Hong Kong's makeshift Covid-19 hospital protected by e-health system

    August 24, 2020 |

    South China Morning Post |

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    Response Location: China, Hong Kong

    In Hong Kong, a newly devised e-health system is teaching patients how to test and monitor their own symptoms during the coronavirus pandemic, rather than have a doctor administer in-person care. Using an exhibition center as the treatment facility, patients with mild symptoms are admitted and then taught "how to check their own vital signs and input the data into the system," which helps limit the contact they have with anyone else.

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