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  • Cinéma chez soi : le pari des salles indépendantes lyonnaises au temps de l'épidémie

    May 27, 2020 |

    Médiacités |

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    Response Location: France, Lyon

    Durant le confinement, des salles de cinéma indépendantes ont fait le pari d'organiser des projections virtuelles à domicile.

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  • Meals on the bus go round and round

    May 27, 2020 |

    Jackson Hole News & Guide |

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    Response Location: United States, Wyoming

    The Sweetwater County school district in Southeastern Wyoming is distributing meals to students around the county, while addressing obstacles some families may face due to lack of transportation or conflicting work schedules. With the assistance of federal funding, the district developed bus routes and pick-up locations based on the degree of need in order to deliver more meals.

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  • Qué es el plasma convaleciente que Costa Rica ya aplica para pacientes críticos de covid-19

    May 27, 2020 |

    La Nación (Costa Rica) |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    El artículo explica cómo funciona la plasmaféresis para el tratamiento de pacientes con COVID-19, desde un punto de vista científico e inmunológico, y por qué podría ayudar a la recuperación de pacientes críticos. Este tratamiento ya ha ayudado a pacientes en Austria, Reino Unido y Chile.

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  • A collective approach to distance teaching

    May 27, 2020 |

    Concord Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

    When schools across New Hampshire, and the U.S., suspended in-person classes as a result of the pandemic, each developed its own way of dealing with a new teaching landscape, including Beech Street Elementary in Manchester. Instead of having teachers individually their class, the school took a "collective approach" and had teachers work as a team, with each teacher in charge of one specific lesson, to deliver the lessons to all students within the same grade. The school also accommodated ELL students by relying on a translation app, and used social media platforms to communicate with parents.

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

    May 27, 2020 |

    LAist |

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    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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  • Enseñar a leer y escribir en casa: cómo se las ingenian las familias de un millón y medio de niños y niñas

    May 27, 2020 |

    Red/Acción |

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    Response Location: Argentina

    Este informe muestra cómo los maestros de educación temprana se ocupan de cuidar a sus alumnos a través de Internet en el año en que sus estudiantes aprenden a leer. Las madres se convierten en maestras y las maestras guían todo digitalmente.

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  • As Covid-19 tears through Navajo Nation, young people step up to protect their elders

    May 26, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, New Mexico

    Across Navajo Nation, young people are coming together to protect their elders through grassroots efforts and campaigns. They’ve created online campaigns, like Protect the Sacred and #NavajoStrong to help provide accurate information, collect donations, deliver medical supplies, and recruit medical professionals. They’ve come together on-the-ground, creating the Northern Dine Covid-19 Relief Effort to get clearing products, fresh food, and other supplies to households on the reservation.

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  • Symbiotic Relationships

    May 26, 2020 |

    Novinky.cz |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic, Brno

    Symbios, a group home in Brno, Czech Republic, aims to equip young adults who grew up in children's homes with life skills by pairing them with college-aged adults, who come from traditional home environments. Within the affordable flat, participants are paired by gender, given their own private room, and those who came from children's homes to learn basic skills like cooking, finding furniture for their unfurnished quarters, and being responsible for their own bills. The experience also allows residents to learn more about people who grew up differently, sharing similarities and differences along the way.

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  • Philly boosts coronavirus testing access for city residents who need it most

    May 26, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia's local government and health care providers are working to improve access to health care and coronavirus testing in minority and low-income neighborhoods. While a testing center is the newest addition to their efforts, local health care centers have been and will remain a crucial resource for residents to access telehealth services and information.

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  • Students on lockdown create a global guide to coronavirus conspiracy theories, fake cures, and other whopping lies

    May 26, 2020 |

    Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |

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    Response Location: United States, Princeton, New Jersey

    Princeton University's Empirical Studies of Conflict Project launched a tracking effort to document COVID-19 disinformation worldwide. Created by a network of students tapping into fact-checking sites and other social media and internet sources, the data set taking shape (and, with more than 800 entries in its first three months, already accessible online) serves as a resource for researchers, historians, journalists, and the public in the battle against rumors, conspiracy theories, fake cures, propaganda, and other disinformation surrounding the pandemic.

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