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Sweden's government has tried a risky coronavirus strategy. It could backfire.

Alex Ward

April 09, 2020 |

Vox |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Sweden

Where government restrictions are lax, residents adopt social distancing measures voluntarily to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Sweden, the trust between much of the country’s population and a public health system disinclined to advise for long-term shutdowns at the national level has left residents and businesses to enact social distancing and sheltering measures more gradually. In the long-term, there appears to be a relationship between Sweden’s relatively higher caseload and voluntary containment policies when compared to its neighbors.

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Knox County ahead of the curve on manufacturing-healthcare alliance to fight COVID-19

Cheryl Splain

April 08, 2020 |

Knox Pages |

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Response Location: United States, Mount Vernon, Ohio

Early and rapid collaboration to create new supply chains improves emergency response times. In Knox County, Ohio, manufacturers began working with the Knox Community Hospital to mobilize 3-D printers and offer a short-term solution to the availability of masks, gloves, and other protective equipment. If the surge in demand for devices continues, companies may also scale up injection mold production.

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Lessons From the HIV Epidemic for the COVID-19 Pandemic

Heather Boerner

April 08, 2020 |

Medscape |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Both the successes and failures of the nationwide Ending the HIV Epidemic plan offers lessons for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for rural parts of the United States. One significant lesson is that of addressing health disparities linked to social determinants that prevent community members from accessing affordable or reliable health care. When "structural access to healthcare," was addressed in cities where HIV rates were higher, many saw those rates decrease, especially when the Affordable Care Act led to the expansion of Medicaid.

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Volunteers fixed 20,000 N95 masks for Memphis hospital in a weekend

David Williams

April 07, 2020 |

CNN |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

By recruiting friends and community members, volunteers were able to repair thousands of protective masks. Having been in storage, a large collection of N95 masks had had the elastic dry rot while the filters remained usable. The volunteers sewed new straps onto the masks, intended for Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in Tennessee.

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Mobile drive-through Coronavirus Testing: Lessons from Germany for Nigeria

Ruona Meyer

April 06, 2020 |

Premium Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

Nigeria's first drive-through coronavirus testing site followed some of the same protocols that have been used successfully in Germany, but lessons offered by Germany could help the Nigerian facility improve its processes. In its first two days, the site run by the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research tested 78 people. Appointments were made for the free tests after a screening process to preserve the supply of tests for those most at risk from the virus. Outdoor testing affords a measure of safety to healthcare workers, while testing people in their cars offers some privacy to those getting tested.

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Brazil's Favelas Aren't Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus

Isabela Dias

April 02, 2020 |

Slate |

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Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

Community organizers are stepping in to help disseminate vital public health information to underserved communities. In Brazil, social organizers like the those behind Our Mothers’ Lives, an organization advocating for paid leave for domestic workers during the COVID-19 crisis, and local journalists, who debunk myths via podcasts like Manda Notícias (Send the News), have taken an important role in conveying public health messages to Brazil’s favela communities. These communicators utilize social media, as well as audio messaging campaigns, handouts, and reporting to inform the communities they serve.

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How Taiwan has become a COVID-19 success story

Nick Schifrin

April 01, 2020 |

PBS NewsHour |

Broadcast TV Programs |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Taiwan

Taiwan was expected to be inundated with COVID-19 cases, but that never happened at least in part due to the swift and aggressive actions enacted by the government. Integral to the approach was enhanced transparency from the government, which included text messages to those who were quarantined, as well as using lessons learned from the SARS outbreak.

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Bend it like the Bay Area: Doctors see flatter curve after 2 weeks of social isolation

Debra Kahn Carla Marinucci

March 30, 2020 |

Politico |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

As the coronavirus outbreak began to show signs of spreading the United States, six counties in the Bay Area of California quickly instituted stay at home and shelter-in-place orders. Although the virus is still spreading in much of the country, the early and aggressive measures taken in this region are believed to have contributed to the lower-than-expected caseload reported by hospitals in these counties.

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Restrictions Are Slowing Coronavirus Infections, New Data Suggest

Donald G. McNeil Jr.

March 30, 2020 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States

Kinsa thermometers connect wirelessly to a central database that has been used to track fevers across the United States during the COVID19 pandemic. The data that has been collected has shown that strict orders like business closures and stay-at-home restrictions are working. With public health measures that seek prevention rather than treatment, proof of success can be hard to identify, but these thermometers and their tracking are doing it.

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Coronavirus: Is Bay Area social distancing lockdown working? Some see progress

John Woolfolk

March 30, 2020 |

San Jose Mercury News |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

As California’s Bay Area is weeks into its shelter-in-place order – the first in the nation – experts are seeing indications that it’s working in the fight against COVID19, but at the same time needs to continue. Health officials are seeing signs that the increase of cases could be flattening, which was the goal of social distancing, and has been giving the area more time to prepare for a spike, which other experts say is inevitable. Either way, the stay-at-home mandate is helping reduce strain on the healthcare system.

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