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  • Religiöse Feste in Corona-Zeiten

    April 09, 2020 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Während Corona überdenken viele Gelehrte die Vorschriften ihrer Religion, damit Gläubige auch während Corona Feste feiern wie Pessach oder Ramadan feiern können. Der Ermessensspielraum unterscheidet sich von Religion zu Religion – doch fast alle greifen auf technische Lösungen zurück.

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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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  • 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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  • Symptom-trackers and doctor dorms: how universities are fighting Covid-19

    April 09, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Cambridge

    In the UK, universities are playing a role in containing the coronavirus and helping communities cope by creating innovative solutions and using of technology to expand access. From converting shipping containers into vertical farms that provide food to those experiencing homelessness to teaching businesses how to move their work online, "universities are using their research and resources to improve people’s lives."

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

    April 09, 2020 |

    Le Temps |

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    800-1500 Words

    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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  • Urban farm provides homeless shelter residents with good food and opportunities

    April 09, 2020 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    An innovative partnership between Bell Shelter, a homeless shelter, Grow Good, an urban farm, and the Salvation Army is bringing healthy food and cooking to a new audience in Los Angeles. People experiencing homelessness are able to get paid to learn culinary skills, and the food from the urban garden both feeds the homeless residents as well as earns income through a social enterprise model that helps fund the training and support programming. After shelter clients participate in the 12 week culinary training program, many are able to get full-time jobs at local culinary institutions.

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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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  • How custodians in Durham Public Schools were granted paid emergency leave

    April 09, 2020 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    In March 2020, North Carolina’s Board of Education, in response to COVID-19, approved paid emergency leave for all school employees – but with 100% pay only going to those that qualify as “high risk.” With many of the affected employees being Spanish-only speakers explanations of the detailed leave policies were not comprehensive, making the roll out of the relief confusing and inaccessible.

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