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  • Migrantes en Argentina: la solidaridad como única vía

    Los venezolanos que han estado viviendo en Argentina durante años logran recolectar dinero y ayudar a los nuevos inmigrantes de Venezuela durante la crisis pandémica. El sistema de donaciones ayuda a los recién llegados a integrarse en una realidad más difícil para los trabajadores informales, debido a las medidas nacionales de confinamiento.

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  • McDo réquisitionné, autogestion : les collectifs de quartiers nourrissent des milliers de Marseillais

    Depuis le début du confinement, des citoyens organisent des collectes et des distributions de nourriture au profit des personnes les plus touchées par le ralentissement économique à Marseille - avec une efficacité exemplaire.

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  • Utah And New Mexico Lead The Region In COVID-19 Testing. Here's How They've Done It Audio icon

    Deploying a state-wide COVID-19 testing strategy requires coordinating both public and private-industry stakeholders. In Utah and New Mexico, the appointment of “testing czars,” or public health leaders in charge of coordinating testing, has led to targeted, successful strategies to ramp up testing. These “testing czars” work to coordinate with commercial and public labs to find supplies and address bottlenecks. Suppliers work to connect via conference call to discuss logistics, allowing for successful scaling in both rural and urban testing strategies.

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  • As residents at Milwaukee County nursing homes contracted and died of coronavirus, administrators and local officials kept it to themselves

    After the coronavirus outbreak devastated a nursing home in Wisconsin unbeknownst to the residents' family members and the public, advocates and lawmakers called for more transparency from the facility. The agency, joining other care facilities in the state and nation, is now reporting cases according to newly implemented protocols regarding transparency and timeliness, as a means of helping "family members and health care workers plan for their safety."

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  • How San Francisco's Chinatown Avoided Covid-19 Panic

    It wasn't until first cases of coronavirus were recorded in the United States that San Francisco and other U.S. cities took action to mitigate the spread, but in Chinatown, precautions started much earlier and the preparations seem to have worked. With only three recorded cases in Chinatown, the residents credit trust in authorities, community-driven communications, heightened hygiene practices, and the local Chinese Hospital, "which has strong ties to the community it serves."

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  • Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the Way

    With the goal of containing the spread of Covid-19, the national governments in Australia and New Zealand took an approach that was predicated on letting public health experts take the lead. Although this approach – which led to early and aggressive restrictions of movement – was not met favorably by all at first, it has proved successful so far, leading both countries to reset the goal to eliminating the virus rather than just containing it.

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  • Meet the Women Who Detonate Land Mines in Colombia's Former War Zones

    In Colombia, the organization Humanity & Inclusion has hired women in local areas like Caquetá to help demine formerly war-torn lands. In areas with violent histories, trust is crucial, thus the hiring of local residents who can gain community trust and access more information about where landmines might be. But with the risk of instability, the future of this work has yet to be determined.

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  • Coronavirus en Islandia: pruebas masivas y gratuitas, una apuesta difícil de replicar en el mundo

    Este artículo explicativo analiza cómo Islandia controló la pandemia por el COVID-19 usando medidas especiales: confinamiento parcial, pruebas masivas a todo el país sin cerrar fronteras para el turismo y viajes de civiles. El Gobierno se alió con un laboratorio de genética líder en Europa para ser el país que más tests ha realizado a su población (17% de los habitantes).

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  • An impromptu drive-through at a Sikh temple to feed neighbors now helps thousands daily

    The Sikh community in Riverside, California—starting with the United Sikh Mission and the Riverside Sikh Temple—has provided thousands of masks and more than 40,000 homemade hot meals to healthcare professionals and anyone who needs it. They also have sent more than 1,000 meals a day to nursing homes in nearby counties and deliver meals to four local hospitals. The efforts have received community funding, and they have no plans to stop anytime soon because, "there are no days off for hunger."

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  • The fire we need

    The Indigenous Peoples Burning Network works with a group of other similar networks with the shared goal of promoting prescribed fire in a positive and safe manner that will help local ecosystems and minimize the risk of unintentional wildfires. Since controlled burning has been part of Indigenous communities for much of their long history, there is an opportunity for Indigenous leaders and local fire experts to learn from each other.

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