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Some hospitals are tracking Covid-19 by adding sensors to employees' badges

Christina Farr

August 02, 2020 |

CNBC |

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Response Location: United States, Illinois

SwipeSense is a monitoring technology adapted to track people’s movements as a form of contact tracing for Covid-19 in hospitals. Staff wear the device while at work, which uses sensors and location beacons to track movements, and when a positive Covid-19 test arises the hospital can quickly identify and quarantine those exposed to limit further spread. After adopting the device, and combined with other sanitation strategies, an Illinois hospital's staff infection rate dropped from 17% in March to less than 1% in June. Some have expressed privacy and security concerns with monitoring people’s movements.

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How a packed slum in Mumbai beat back the coronavirus, as India's cases continue to soar

Niha Masih

July 31, 2020 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: India, Dharavi

The population of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, made the region a hotspot for coronavirus transmission, but local officials' aggressive action plan – which included testing, contact tracing, quarantine, and increased sanitation efforts – helped quell the spread of the virus. Although the process was challenging for local doctors and the shutdown of normal day-to-day routines had a negative impact on the region's economy, Dharavi has already been able to begin the process of reopening.

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Program helps New York home health agency face coronavirus challenges in real time

Katie Sullivan Borrelli

June 30, 2020 |

Press & Sun-Bulletin |

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Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

A change in communication policies and outreach procedures has helped the UR Medicine Home Care program retain employees during the coronavirus pandemic, despite increasingly difficult work conditions. Part of this effort has included leaders from the program committing to daily check-ins with staff members to discuss work and personal concerns and then addressing those concerns through actions such as implementing child care options.

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Some Swedish care homes have had no cases of Covid-19 – what did they do right?

Anne Grietje Franssen Petronella Uebel

June 30, 2020 |

The Local |

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Response Location: Sweden

The handful of Swedish elderly care homes that protected residents from COVID-19 infection shared some common traits: they improved hygiene practices, isolated possibly infectious staff, stocked up on protective equipment, and limiting outsiders’ access to the homes. Although luck may have played a role and it is not possible to be certain about success factors, the COVID-free homes all seemed to have management that took quick action without awaiting government mandates.

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This Hermon company's work dried up when coronavirus hit. Now it's making masks for the long run.

Emily Burnham

June 17, 2020 |

Bangor Daily News |

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Response Location: United States, Bangor, Maine

A tension fabric structures manufacturing company in Maine has repurposed their facility and transformed their local workforce to create grade-one medical masks for the local hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic. Because the company uses only U.S.-made materials, they have been able to avoid supply chain interruptions and now plans to continue making masks as part of their standard business model even after the pandemic passes.

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Swarthmore alums use their tech skills to deliver PPE to health care workers across the U.S.

Jessica Press

June 03, 2020 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A group of tech-savy Swarthmore College alumni are helping to get a surplus of personal protective equipment into the hands of the medical professionals who need it most. Tapping into communities where it's not uncommon to have spare PPE due to environmental reasons such as wildfires, the group created a database that pairs donors with recipients. The process has allowed for more than 666,000 masks transferred to health care workers nationwide.

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House-Bound RV Owners Loan Their Idle Vehicles To Frontline Workers In Need

Stephanie O'Neill

May 27, 2020 |

LAist |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

A chance encounter sparked by a Facebook post led to the creation of RVs 4 MDs, a Facebook group pairing donated recreational vehicles for front-line medical workers who needed to distance themselves from their families while still living at home. Created in late March, the group in its first two months matched 1,460 workers with donated temporary housing. The arrangements can be awkward, with parents camped out in the family home's driveway, unable to have physical contact with their children. But they have enabled medical workers to stay connected with their families at no cost.

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Prominent entrepreneurs join activists as volunteers in COVID19 response

Maryia Vaitovich

May 21, 2020 |

Euroradio |

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Response Location: Belarus, Minsk

Based on one Instagram post forwarding a request from a doctor for protective gear for his hospital, #BYCOVID19 grew into a large-scale clearinghouse to funnel donated supplies to front-line medical workers in Belarus. Fueled by $125,000 in donations in its first weeks, the volunteer-run service opened a warehouse to store and ship all manner of protective gear that hospitals were desperate to receive amid a serious outbreak of the virus.

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COVID-19: Will South Korea's model help save Nigeria's hospital bed shortage?

Ifedayo Ogunyemi

May 15, 2020 |

Nigerian Tribune |

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Response Location: South Korea

As a response to hospital bed shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea developed a strategy that divides individuals who tested positive into four categories – mild, moderate, severe, and extremely severe – and placed those on the low end of the spectrum in self-quarantine or Living Treatment Centers (residential buildings requiring few medical personnel). As Nigeria grapples with the same issue, they look to South Korea as a model, but hesitate on making it work in different cultural contexts.

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Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reëntry

Atul Gawande

May 13, 2020 |

The New Yorker |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, attention is starting to shift toward reopening and recovery. Looking to healthcare professionals as models for doing so can help. A five-part strategy, tested and implemented at Boston’s Mass General Brigham hospital, has shown promise in its ability to reduce spread amongst hospital workers. It includes: hand-washing, social distancing, mask-wearing, regular health screenings, and cultural shifts toward working better together as communities. Key to this strategy is employing all of the measures in synchronicity.

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