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  • Halal donations start for Muslim medical front-liners

    Alzaky Foods is providing free halal meals to Muslim medical workers in metro Manila. Many Muslim frontline workers were surviving on fast food, crackers, or chips since food donations were not halal. Alzaky has provided more than 2,400 halal meals to over 60 government and private hospitals across the city. The company provides some of the funding in combination with external donations. Identifying Muslim medical workers is a challenge. So far they have identified 200 doctors, nurses, and other medical staff, which they believe is only about 20-30% of the actual number.

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  • To address overwhelming need, Arizona nurses deploy to Colorado

    Nurses from Phoenix’s Banner-University Medical Center volunteered to travel to Greeley, Colorado, which has been hit harder by the COVID-19 pandemic. Seeing twice the number of fatalities, Banner Health – because of its capacity and reach – was able to move around their resources to fit the needs of their different locations.

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  • Special Olympics NY goes virtual for 50th anniversary

    The Special Olympics turned 50 in 2020, but the pandemic has put a damper on their original birthday plans. People with intellectual and physical differences who participate rely on the games for social connection, so many are suffering from the social quarantine. To make up for it, the Special Olympics has moved online—creating an online fitness video series with the WWE. The program, called School of Strength, features exercises and even downloadable interactive toolkits for coaches and caregivers. After initial hurdles, they are now going live twice a week and posting new content daily.

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  • Dumplings Against Hate Audio icon

    The NYC-based campaign, Dumplings Against Hate, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for Asian Americans for Equality’s Emergency Small Business Relief Fund by bringing together a virtual community of support. As the COVID-19 pandemic picked up in early 2020, Chinatown restaurants and businesses saw a decrease in revenue because of xenophobia and racism, inspiring the group’s creation. Since then, it’s acted as a model for similar groups across the country, and is creating a toolkit for cities to create their own campaigns.

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  • 녹색만 입장 가능…中, '건강 앱'으로 생활 방역

    코로나19 사태가 진정세에 접어들며 중국 각지에서 효과적으로 생활방역을 수행하기 위한 움직임들이 일고 있습니다. 베이징에서는 '건강증명'용 앱이, 상하이에서는 QR 코드를 이용해 격리 대상 여부를 선별하는 방법 등이 시행되고 있습니다.

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  • Zéro mort au Viêt Nam du Covid-19: pourquoi?

    Dès le début de l'épidémie, le Vietnam annonce des mesures strictes pour contenir le coronavirus. Au delà de la fermeture des frontières et des écoles, le gouvernment met en place une stratégie de ciblage. Les personnes infectées sont isolées ainsi que les personnes avec qui elles sont entrées en contact. Le système de santé n'est pas débordé et le nombre de cas reste bas.

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  • Tracing the Path Of COVID-19 In Hawaii -- 1 Name At A Time

    In Hawaii, an understaffed health department is struggling to keep up with the number of new COVID-19 infections, but they are doing what they can with a method known as contact tracing, in which disease detectives track and monitor the interactions and movements of known infected people. About 70 people in the health department, half of whom are volunteers, make phone calls all day long to infected patients and everyone they have come in contact with. The health department hopes to scale up as soon as possible.

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  • Meet The Chicago Virus Hunters Who Are Tracking Down COVID-19

    Doctors and staff at Howard Brown Health, a Chicago health center for LGBTQ patients, is using its years of experience in containing and treating HIV and other sexually-transmitted diseases with contact tracing to help contain the spread of Covid-19. The conversations can sometimes be emotional and difficult. The team has found some people are afraid to get the test and others who have lost a loved one to the virus. They have interviewed over 200 people, with many more in the pipeline, and about 65% of those they talked to also tested positive for Covid-19.

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  • The translators giving indigenous migrants a voice

    The group, Promoters of Migrant Liberation, provides translation of indigenous Guatemalan, Maya, Mexican, and Afro-Caribbean languages for migrants in US detention centers. They help translate right from detention, throughout case preparation, and as migrants exit detention centers. The group is made up of only women translating for women migrants, but as detention centers see more migrants as a result of zero-tolerance policies, they’re going to expand to help children and men.

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  • Gainesville Engineer Helps Protect Health Workers With Mass-Produced New Mask

    Altavian, a Gainesville, Florida based engineering company has figured out how to mass produce reusable N95 masks for healthcare workers using 3D printing technology. The mask – crucial in protecting healthcare workers against COVID-19 – is made from a common material, and with funding from donations, the company is able to produce close to 1,000 each day.

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