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  • Why did 77 Ohio prisoners die of COVID-19, but just 10 in Pennsylvania?

    August 21, 2020 |

    Eye On Ohio |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania prisons' relatively uncrowded conditions and approach to releasing people early when the pandemic hit have limited deaths in its prisons, making people incarcerated in Pennsylvania less than half as likely to die of COVID-19 as free Pennsylvanians. In neighboring Ohio, where COVID cases appeared simultaneously, the prison death rate has been nearly seven times higher than Pennsylvania's. Ohio's prisons are far more crowded, they rely much more on dorm-style housing, and their early-release rules were much more restrictive.

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  • With the Hippo Roller, a revolution in fetching water rolls on

    August 21, 2020 |

    Heidi.news |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    After realizing the difficulty that people in South Africa were facing when carrying water back to their communities, two South African engineers devised a machine "that brings all the water back in one trip by rolling it." Users report that while it does not perform well on steep terrain, it can carry much larger amounts of water "effortlessly and in a single trip." So far, 60,000 of these large plastic drums have been sold, but the cost of the machine is often a barrier for those who live below the poverty line.

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  • Courts rule

    August 20, 2020 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Almost half of U.S. states guarantee citizens’ rights to petition for ballot measures, but the coronavirus made gathering signatures in person infeasible. Massachusetts courts allowed electronic signatures, but other states have not approved virtual citizen initiative campaigns. Ballot initiatives allow citizens to advance solutions and enact structural changes without relying on support from elected officials. MA groups used DocuSign to gather 30,000 signatures to get a proposal for ranked choice voting on the ballot. Not all MA groups were able to quickly or successfully pivot to the e-signature process.

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  • On the Delaware, A Promising New Era in Cleanup of an Urban River

    August 20, 2020 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    Once known for being dirty, the Delaware River is being cleaned up by nonprofits and government entities to the point where they’re encouraging people to swim in it again. The Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority diverted the flow of sewage at 52 municipal plants to a new treatment plant, which has kept 15 million gallons of sewage out of the river each day. While overflows have not been completely eliminated, a national advocacy group even named the Delaware its River of the Year because of its improvements in water quality.

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  • Telemedicina en Guanacaste: «Ahora es posible brindar consultas que antes creíamos imposibles»

    August 20, 2020 |

    La Voz de Guanacaste |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, Guanacaste

    Mirando el caso específico de la región de Guanacaste y el Hopital de Liberia, se analiza el impacto de la aplicación de la telemedicina y la teleconsulta en pacientes de diferentes tipos, desde atención post-operatoria hasta atención con un especialista, producto de las restricciones generadas por la pandemia por COVID-19.

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  • Criterio de los tribunales

    August 20, 2020 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    En el 2020 Colorado, no había logrado que las de peticiones para obtener un sitio en la boleta electoral de 2020 se realizaran de manera electrónica, a pesar de estar viviendo una pandemia. Otros estados de Estados Unidos tampoco lo lograron. Pero Massachusetts si lo logró. El artículo compara estas realidades.

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  • Virtual Bronx Internships Put Youth First

    August 20, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    The Thinkubator, a Bronx-based nonprofit, launched "Thinkubator Solves" a virtual internship program that pairs Bronx high school students with local businesses. The paid one-month summer internship allows students to collaborate with employers who are struggling to cope with pandemic-related challenges. Students were grouped into teams who worked with organizations like Legal Aid and Advocates for Children of New York, Bronx Public Schools and a local restaurant.

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  • Flint Community Schools is Going Door to Door to Find Hard-to-Reach Students

    August 20, 2020 |

    Flint Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

    Staff from Flint Community Schools are taking a more door-to-door approach to find the close to 1,500 students who have not yet started attending virtual school when the fall semester started. FCS assembled "wellness teams" made up "social workers, behavioral specialists, nurses, and paraprofessionals" and sent them to neighborhoods with mapped routes to walk around neighborhoods and find students and their families, as well as help identify needs to assist with including food assistance, wi-fi hotspots, and other individual needs.

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  • Pandemic pushes expansion of 'hospital-at-home' treatment

    August 20, 2020 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Ipswich, Massachusetts

    Although offering at-home care has been a practice for some time, the coronavirus pandemic has helped prompt more health insurance companies to allow health care workers to implement the practice at a larger scale. Treating patients in their homes doesn't just reduce the caseload for doctors in hospitals but also has been shown to have positive effects on the patient's overall health and well-being. Since the change in health insurance police, "interest in the programs has skyrocketed."

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  • Minnesota Freedom Fund Bails Out Those Who Can't Afford It

    August 20, 2020 |

    The Community Voice |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The Minnesota Freedom Fund spent its first four years as a modestly funded nonprofit that used donations to bail people out of jail, as a means of countering a cash bail system that critics see as unfair to people living in poverty and people of color. From 2016 to early 2020, it had a budget of $100,000 per year and bailed out 563 people. Protests against Minneapolis police misconduct produced a windfall of $30 million in donations. The fund has excess funds, beyond what's needed to bail out protesters, and faces some criticism that it has freed people accused of violence.

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