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  • "I voted in South Korea's elections. This is what democracy can look like in a pandemic."

    April 17, 2020 |

    Vox |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: South Korea

    South Korea held a national election during the Covid-19 pandemic by taking extensive sanitation and health screening measures. In addition to mandatory face protection and social distancing, voters’ temperatures were taken, hands covered in sanitizer, and given new gloves for their sanitized hands. Those with a fever voted in a secluded area and those with mild Covid-19 symptoms could vote by hospitals. Those in quarantine had one hour to vote after everyone else and needed to report to officials when home. It’s impossible to erase all risks, but many voters report the steps taken increased their security.

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  • How epidemiology detectives are tracing each Alaska coronavirus case

    April 17, 2020 |

    Anchorage Daily News |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    In an effort to contain the coronavirus, Alaska nurses are stepping in as "contact tracers," as a means of investigating who should be quarantined or tested. The initiative has been credited for helping keep Alaska's rate of transmission low thus far in addition to other measures such as social distancing.

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  • South Korea's Coronavirus Test Run: How to Hold an Election

    April 15, 2020 |

    Wall Street Journal |

    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: South Korea

    Extra sanitation and health screening precautions allowed South Korea to hold a national election during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mandatory face protection, rubber gloves, taking voters’ temperatures, and providing hand sanitizer and new gloves were some of the requirements at polling stations. Candidates also continued to campaign but took precautions such as face masks, gloves, and microphone covers. While the strictest social distancing was not followed, voters express feeling comfortable and officials say South Korea could provide a model to other countries on how to hold an election during the pandemic.

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  • Durango business offers free lodging for families and individuals impacted by COVID-19

    April 14, 2020 |

    KSUT |

    Podcast |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Durango, Colorado

    Premier Vacation Rentals Group offers free lodging in about 30% of its 350 vacation rentals for frontline workers to avoid exposing their families to Covid-19, which gives them peace of mind that they are protecting their families while also providing space to engage in self-care for their own physical and mental health. The company cleans the rentals according to CDC guidelines; however, the units are not approved for people who have tested positive for Covid-19. Two other vacation rental groups in the area have also started offering unused rentals to first responders and healthcare workers.

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  • Making the world a quieter place

    April 14, 2020 |

    BBC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Noise pollution can have negative impacts on health, but researchers in different parts of the world are working on projects that all aim to address this concern. Some solutions – such as concrete structures surrounding railway tracks – have been in use for quite some time, but now newer projects from the United Kingdom to Mumbai aim to use similar design thinking for both short-term and consistent noise events.

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  • ‘Feel Like A Million Dollars': Shower-On-Wheels Program Offers Hope, Hygiene For Homeless Sacramentans During COVID-19

    April 13, 2020 |

    CapRadio |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    In Sacramento, a mobile shower unit is helping the city's homeless population stay clean and safe during the COVID-19 outbreak. Volunteers with the unit are also distributing fresh clothes and bagged lunches.

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  • “Ladies First!”: Women fight against solid waste dumping in this Himachal Pradesh village

    April 13, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, Sudher, Himachal Pradesh

    A group of women volunteers, known as the Mahila Mandal, from Sudher in India are fighting against the dumping of garbage in their village and the pollution and potential negative health effects that come with it. Despite daily household and farm work, the group has been pressuring authorities through demonstrations and protests to clean up the solid waste dumping site.

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  • Tracking the unseen: How public health workers chase COVID-19 in Salt Lake County

    April 11, 2020 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Contact tracing, the act of identifying the people that someone infected with COVID-19 has come into contact with to reduce transmission, is front and center for Salt Lake City County’s Infectious Disease and Epidemiology bureaus, which have increased staff by 100 people to adapt to rising need. As opposed to what some deem invasive technology used to do contact tracing in other countries, Salt Lake City is relying on an all-hands-on-deck surveillance effort through questioning of individuals with the goal of reducing spread as much as possible.

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  • Elimination: what New Zealand's coronavirus response can teach the world

    April 10, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: New Zealand

    Adopting vigorous public health interventions early on is key when aiming for elimination over mitigation. In contrast to many countries mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic by “flattening the curve,” New Zealand’s early lockdowns and travel restrictions characterized a strategy of early elimination. Despite economic costs, New Zealand focused on eliminating nearly all chains of transmission.

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  • Greece Shows How to Handle the Crisis

    April 10, 2020 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Greece, Athens

    The speed of the response matters in mitigating the public health impact of a pandemic. Greece, which acted to restrict non-essential movement faster than countries like Spain and Italy, has sufewera fewer cases of COVID-19. Alongside enacting containment policies only days after its first cases, Greece has been able to prepare its emergency medical system by recruiting additional doctors and staff.

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