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  • In Seattle, School Is Out, But Lunch Is Still In

    March 23, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    After Seattle schools closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, school staff quickly mobilized to ensure there would still be a way to distribute free food to students and their families. As the crisis unfolds, the distribution model will likely evolve to best meet the need, organizers explain.

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  • Governments are using cellphone location data to manage the coronavirus

    March 23, 2020 |

    The Verge |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    Governments across the world are using data from cell phones to better track the movement of those under quarantine restrictions during coronavirus. While each country using this containment strategy is implementing it in different ways, the information shared is kept anonymous but, in some cases, grants the greater public access to movements of individuals to know where possible contagions may have occurred.

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  • Medical Students, Sidelined for Now, Find New Ways to Fight Coronavirus

    March 23, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Medical students have found creative ways to pitch in during the Coronavirus pandemic when they are not yet certified to work with patients. Students across the country are organizing to help out by doing things like offering childcare for medical workers and sourcing personal protective equipment from a range of businesses. The students themselves say that they are happy to do "anything we can do to relieve burden on the real heroes.”

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  • Renaissance Mill

    March 23, 2020 |

    Oregon Business Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, West Linn, Oregon

    After a paper mill in Oregon closed abruptly, a venture capitalist swooped in, bought the place, and reopened it as the first paper mill in the United States to produce paper using wheat pulp. Through a partnership between a pulp plant in Washington state, the Willamette Falls Paper Company is using the leftover material from wheat farmers to turn it into a product that reduces agricultural waste, carbon emissions, and the need to cut down trees.

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  • With command and control, Taiwan excels in managing COVID-19

    March 23, 2020 |

    Channel News Asia |

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    Response Location: Taiwan

    After the 2003 SARS epidemic, Taiwan formed the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), which has proved necessary in the face of COVID19. The CECC has helped coordinated screenings for incoming travelers, rationing face masks, creating a hotline, and enforcing mandatory self-quarantines. They’ve also integrated health insurance, immigration, and customs databases to identify those most at risk.

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  • How a 60,000-employee firm survived China's COVID-19 outbreak

    March 23, 2020 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: China, Hubei Province

    Bosch China Investment Ltd. survived the worst of the Coronavirus pandemic by taking serious precautions early on. This article lays out the specific steps in the timeline of the pandemic that the company took to protect its employees. Tactics include the usual set of tools like social distancing, face masks, and emergency preparedness systems, but it was how they executed the process that made it a success.

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  • How volunteers from tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Google built a coronavirus-tracking site in six days

    March 23, 2020 |

    CNBC |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Volunteers from tech companies collaborated with epidemiologists to create a Covid-19 tracking site that works to monitor the spread of the virus and help people know if they have been in contact with anyone who may have been infected. Although registration to the site is still short of the goal number, 10,000 people have already provided their information.

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  • Cambridge To Pay Restaurants To Make Meals For Homeless People

    March 23, 2020 |

    WBUR |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    To help mitigate the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on some of its most vulnerable populations, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is paying otherwise closed restaurants to make food for short-staffed homeless shelters in the area.

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  • Hand Sanitizer Mini-Factories Popping Up Around Bay Area

    March 23, 2020 |

    San Francisco Public Press |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In the Bay Area of California, organizations are repurposing their work and personal spaces to act as DIY pop-up hand sanitizer factories during the coronavirus pandemic. From donating the product to homeless shelters to installing hand washing stations and hand sanitizer dispensers throughout cities, community members are taking an active role in trying to help contain the virus.

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  • "There Are No Kids Here": Some Enrichment Centers For Children Of Essential Personnel See Light Attendance On Day One

    March 23, 2020 |

    Gothamist |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As city schools closed in response to the COVID19 pandemic, New York City opened Regional Enrichment Centers for children of essential personnel. With 93 operating sites, they anticipate caring for about 57,000 children, although attendance so far has been low. Certain precautions are being taken, too, like routine wellness checks for participants and employees, on-site nurses, and constant cleaning and disinfecting.

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