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  • During Ramadan in isolation, Muslims get creative to preserve community

    April 23, 2020 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    As the Ramadan season begins, Muslim communities around the world are making adjustments to how they observe it in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Minneapolis, the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is broadcasting the call to prayer by speaker and in the U.K., the National Huffadh Association has created an online toolkit on how to pray at home. With connection and community a key part of Ramadan, a Reddit thread has started, connecting people for a Secret Santa-style Eid gift exchange, and a Minneapolis programmer has started an online service matching people in time zones to break fast together.

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  • Cultivating communities of care

    April 23, 2020 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder County, Colorado

    A mutual aid group in Boulder Country has directed their efforts towards making sure people are accounted for and that they have the goods they need during the coronavirus pandemic. Although the effort is just one of many both in the county and nationwide, they've responded to 70 requests from community members so far. "Help is great if it comes from the government or if it comes from a state apparatus, that’s fine," explains one of the organizers. "But you don’t have to wait if you can get organized with people in your community."

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  • Campaña Juntos por Guanacaste entregó canastas básicas a 577 familias de Santa Cruz

    April 23, 2020 |

    La Voz de Guanacaste |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica, guana

    Organizaciones privadas con y sin fines de lucro crearon una red de recaudación y entrega de alimentos para las familias afectadas por los cierres por la pandemia por COVID-19. Muchas de las organizaciones ya trabajaban en el área y lograron adaptar sus bases de datos y estructuras para asegurar que el recurso llegara a las personas más afectadas en la región de Guanacaste, Costa Rica, donde trabajaron.

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  • Bremer Firma entwickelt Gewebe, das Coronaviren abtötet

    April 23, 2020 |

    Weser-Kurier |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Bis zu 72 Stunden kann sich das Coronavirus auf Oberflächen halten. Die Bremer Firma Statex hat ein Gewebe entwickelt, das die Viren innerhalb von Minuten abtötet. Der Erfolg liegt bei 99,98 Prozent, sagt eine Studie.

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  • Online meetings beat social isolation

    April 23, 2020 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Lakes Region, New Hampshire

    The Boys and Girls Club of the Lakes Region in New Hampshire have quickly pivoted to offering online classes and outreach to help their students and their family to maintain some semblance of social connection, routine, and normalcy. While technology has helped address the social isolation that has come from the coronavirus pandemic, it is still not a replacement for in-person connection. However, psychologists say that it still can act as the "next-best alternative to being in visual and physical contact."

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  • These coal communities are protecting sick miners from COVID-19 and pushing Congress for more support

    April 23, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Tennessee

    In Tennessee and Kentucky, rural coal communities are drawing on their decades-old networks of mutual aid to protect coal miners from COVID-19. At the legislative level, the National Black Lung Association and other Appalachian groups are coming together to push for more coal miner protections in coronavirus stimulus bills. At the local level, communities are organizing phone trees to share necessary information, helping with grocery and prescription delivery, and providing greater access to broadband for those without reliable internet.

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  • How location data can help track and stop the spread of COVID-19

    April 23, 2020 |

    Business Insider |

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    Response Location: Singapore

    When it comes to containing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many experts point to contact tracing, in which disease detectives track and monitor the interactions and movements of known infected people, as the key. From more manual, labor-intensive detective methods to high-tech app-based methods, contact tracing tactics can vary, but the basic concept remains the same. However, there is a trade off between safety and privacy.

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  • The farmers bringing their fields indoors

    April 23, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    To "ease the strain" on the food supply chain, some restaurants in large cities, such as Berlin and Paris, are turning to their own crop production using in-house vertical farm systems. Although these farms have not yet yielded a profit, consumers have expressed that the produce grow in-house tastes better and investors have given billions in funding betting, "urbanites wanting this kind of food."

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  • Coronavirus Crisis Opens Access To Online Opioid Addiction Treatment

    April 23, 2020 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Walnut Creek, California

    Addiction experts have been offering online counseling for addiction patients for years but have also been working to change a federal law that required patients seeking medications to help with withdrawals to first make an in-person appointment. The coronavirus pandemic has now expedited that change, and with the regulation lifted, doctors are able to offer medication-assisted treatment via online appointments in addition to the counseling.

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  • City Nature Challenge Can Help Us Find Resilience and Mindfulness at Home

    April 22, 2020 |

    Texas Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Throughout the United States, an annual community science competition known as the City Nature Challenge (CNC), has brought residents together to document research-grade observations as a means of locating and identifying species with conservation needs. Although it's yet to be seen how this competition will fare during the coronavirus pandemic, in past years, thousands of observations have been made representing hundreds of species.

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