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  • Chicago Distillers Build a Vigilante Hand Sanitizer Industry

    March 26, 2020 |

    Chicago Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Many Chicago distilleries are utilizing their abundance of high-proof alcohol to create hand sanitizer to fill a gap in the market due to the coronavirus pandemic. While a portion of the product is being donated to first responders and frontline workers, this new business endeavor is also helping distillery owners keep their employees on payroll and their businesses open.

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  • ‘COVID-19 Clearinghouse': Project N95 is matching hospitals with PPE suppliers

    March 26, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    Dozens of tech-focused volunteers have come together to create Project N95, a personal protective equipment clearinghouse meant to connect health institutions in need of equipment like masks with suppliers around the world. This central marketplace aims to bridge the two parties in a single place along an otherwise complex supply chain.

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  • How Vietnam is winning its 'war' on coronavirus

    March 26, 2020 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Vietnam

    South Korea's response to the coronavirus has been held up as exemplary. How is Vietnam achieving similar results with fewer resources and a smaller budget?

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  • Metro Detroit's yoga community finds breathing space online during COVID-19

    March 26, 2020 |

    Metromode |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Gyms nationwide have had to close due to the spread of COVID-19, but a yoga studio in Metro Detroit is turning to technology to help deliver classes to the community. With the practice of yoga is associated with stress management, studio owners utilizing virtual options such as Facebook Live, Zoom, and YouTube in order to help their clientele cope.

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  • Volunteers rally to produce homemade face masks for coronavirus medical workers

    March 26, 2020 |

    Orange County Register |

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    Response Location: United States

    Businesses and individuals around the world are pivoting from business-as-usual to churning out masks to fill shortages in supplies for hospital staff and others amid COVID-19.

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  • Global lessons for Santa Cruz in the COVID-19 response

    March 26, 2020 |

    Santa Cruz Local |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Cruz, California

    Cities and states throughout the U.S. are in forms of lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic, including Santa Cruz County in California. Although this practice is one way to mitigate the spread, institutions in Santa Cruz are looking to other countries that have have seen success with a "test-trace-quarantine model."

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  • 위기 속 한국-베트남 우정, 서로 ‘윈윈'… 교민들은 협조ㆍ베트남은 배려

    March 26, 2020 |

    한국일보 |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, Hanoi

    한때 베트남에서는 코로나19 관련 조치들로 교민사회와 베트남 현지인들 간에 갈등 양상이 빚어졌습니다. 이를 해소하고자 하노이, 호찌민 등 교민사회를 중심으로 '선플' 운동, 현지 구호활동 등이 벌어졌고 베트남 정부 역시 한국인을 대상으로 별도숙소를 마련하고 특별 노동허가 발급을 추진하는 등 '윈윈'을 달성하기 위한 노력들이 결실을 맺었습니다.

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  • Know your rights: How eviction moratoriums work in LA amid COVID-19 crisis

    March 26, 2020 |

    ABC News (American Broadcasting Company) |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    To prevent people from losing their homes due to lack of paying rent or during the coronavirus pandemic, the L.A. County Supervisor issued an executive order that prevents landlords from evicting their tenants. To apply, the renter must demonstrate their "inability to pay due to COVID-19 financial impacts."

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  • How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down

    March 26, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Singapore, Singapore

    South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong have all acted in ways that show it is possible to effectively manage the COVID-19 outbreak without shutting down an entire country. The common thread may be that all three countries have dealt with previous coronaviruses: MERS and SARS. This helped them start testing early, limit travel effectively, and track movement and subsequently quarantine people who came into contact with the virus - thus limiting the spread and keeping infected numbers relatively low.

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  • With Food For All Poor and Door-to-Door Coronavirus Screening, Pandemic-hit Bhilwara Sets Example for Rest of India

    March 26, 2020 |

    News18 India |

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    Response Location: India, Bhilwara, Rajasthan

    Bhilwara, India has provided food, masks, hand sanitizer, and door-to-door coronavirus screening to 600,000 residents who are not allowed to leave their houses during a total lockdown due to an outbreak of coronavirus. The generosity of donors from NGOs, charities, and individuals was managed efficiently by local government who handed out food staples to thousands of households.

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