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

    April 09, 2020 |

    Vox |

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    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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  • Grâce à son drive-in, Berne veut faciliter les tests

    April 09, 2020 |

    Le Temps |

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    Response Location: Switzerland, Bern

    Le canton de Berne a été le premier de Suisse à mettre sur pied un système de dépistage du coronavirus accessible en voiture. Cette stratégie vise à étendre le dispositif pour tester la population, mais d'autres cantons n'y voient pas d'avantages assez significatifs pour reproduire l'initiative.

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  • What California is doing right in responding to the coronavirus pandemic

    April 09, 2020 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Several statewide measures allowed California to mitigate its surge of COVID-19 cases by acting early. The state issued a mandatory stay-at-home order, which included making face masks mandatory and shutting down public parks during the Easter holiday. In addition to restricting movement, California also made testing widely available and managed to produce a surplus of ventilators. Furthermore, many tech companies quickly adopted work-from-home measures. The thoroughness and early nature of these responses helped the state avoid a surge as seen in New York.

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  • California appears to be flattening the curve — but residents must keep social distancing for at least another month, experts say

    April 09, 2020 |

    Business Insider |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The newest caseload numbers out of California have indicated that the state has been at least somewhat successful in containing the coronavirus outbreak, but residents are still being instructed to keep social distancing. With early and aggressive measures taken in the state to enact social distancing and shelter-in-place, these methods are being credited as major factors in the success so far.

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  • The power of love and a quarantine creates Project 88

    April 09, 2020 |

    The Bulletin |

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    Response Location: United States, Bend, Oregon

    To address the boredom and isolation that many artists are feeling during the coronavirus pandemic, a local independent filmmaker in Oregon created a film project to act as a creative outlet that attracted contributions from more than 300 people across the world. The project – “Project 88: Back to the Future Too” – invited people to recreate one of 88 scenes from the popular franchise film, which filmmaker Taylor Morden then stitched together into the final movie and released online.

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  • What a Solidarity Economy Looks Like

    April 09, 2020 |

    Boston Review |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Maricá

    The local government in Maricá, a small municipality in Brazil, is being said to have initiated "the most ambitious city-level response to COVID-19 in Brazil, and one of the most notable in the world." Even before the coronavirus spread, the city worked on the premise of mutual aid, which included a universal basic income and a solidarity economy. In the context of the coronavirus, these proactive policies are now emerging as examples of how a democratized economy can result in a region being better positioned to withstand a public health crisis.

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  • Race to save rare California frog beats coronavirus lockdown

    April 09, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Murrieta, California

    A binational effort to transport eggs of the endangered red-legged-frog from Baja California to the Santa Ana Mountains in California was a great success. By working with the Nature Conservancy and various researchers over an almost two-decade period of time, this recent transplant marks the successful reintroduction of the species into an environment where it is expected to thrive.

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  • COVID-19: les leçons du dépistage à grande échelle de l'Islande

    April 09, 2020 |

    Radio Canada |

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    Response Location: Iceland, Reykjavík

    Pour mieux comprendre le phénomène de contagion du virus, l'Islande a mis en place un système de dépistage de masse. Axé sur une politique préventive menée dès le début de l'épidémie, le dispositif est le fruit d'une collaboration entre le gouvernment et une firme privée. Les résultats montrent qu'une large partie de la population est infectée mais asymptomatique.

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  • Glendale Community College's mobile food pantry meets a rising wave of need during pandemic

    April 09, 2020 |

    Glendale News-Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Glendale, California

    California’s Glendale Community College normally operates a food pantry, called Food for Thought Pantry, for its students. Forced to close to slow the spread of COVID-19, it partnered with the Los Angeles Food Bank and the Glendale Community College charitable foundation to create a mobile food pantry for students and their families. Collecting food from farmers, wholesalers, grocers, growers, and distributors, they served a line of over 1,000 vehicles in April.

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  • Isolation: Was wir von Astronauten lernen können

    April 09, 2020 |

    Der Standard |

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    Response Location: Austria

    Auf engem Raum, in einem streng getakteten Alltag und ohne frische Luft zu schnappen: Wie hält man es Monate im Weltraum und mit der Crew aus? Mit Respekt, Empathie, Kommunikation – und viel Übung.

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