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  • How a 60,000-employee firm survived China's COVID-19 outbreak

    March 23, 2020 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: China, Hubei Province

    Bosch China Investment Ltd. survived the worst of the Coronavirus pandemic by taking serious precautions early on. This article lays out the specific steps in the timeline of the pandemic that the company took to protect its employees. Tactics include the usual set of tools like social distancing, face masks, and emergency preparedness systems, but it was how they executed the process that made it a success.

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  • Cambridge To Pay Restaurants To Make Meals For Homeless People

    March 23, 2020 |

    WBUR |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    To help mitigate the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on some of its most vulnerable populations, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is paying otherwise closed restaurants to make food for short-staffed homeless shelters in the area.

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  • Renaissance Mill

    March 23, 2020 |

    Oregon Business Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, West Linn, Oregon

    After a paper mill in Oregon closed abruptly, a venture capitalist swooped in, bought the place, and reopened it as the first paper mill in the United States to produce paper using wheat pulp. Through a partnership between a pulp plant in Washington state, the Willamette Falls Paper Company is using the leftover material from wheat farmers to turn it into a product that reduces agricultural waste, carbon emissions, and the need to cut down trees.

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  • Bridging the digital divide: How NH districts are making remote learning work

    March 23, 2020 |

    The Eagle-Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Many counties in New Hampshire are addressing the digital divide by loaning laptops to students without access to a computer at home and providing paper assignments to students who don’t have access to the internet. Though not available for every student who lacks access to a computer, school districts, business leaders, and citizens have loaned out thousands of laptops to students. The state's largest school district has bus drivers bring breakfast, lunch, and paper assignments to school children each day, which also enables the bus drivers to continue working during the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown.

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  • "There Are No Kids Here": Some Enrichment Centers For Children Of Essential Personnel See Light Attendance On Day One

    March 23, 2020 |

    Gothamist |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As city schools closed in response to the COVID19 pandemic, New York City opened Regional Enrichment Centers for children of essential personnel. With 93 operating sites, they anticipate caring for about 57,000 children, although attendance so far has been low. Certain precautions are being taken, too, like routine wellness checks for participants and employees, on-site nurses, and constant cleaning and disinfecting.

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  • How volunteers from tech companies like Amazon, Apple and Google built a coronavirus-tracking site in six days

    March 23, 2020 |

    CNBC |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Volunteers from tech companies collaborated with epidemiologists to create a Covid-19 tracking site that works to monitor the spread of the virus and help people know if they have been in contact with anyone who may have been infected. Although registration to the site is still short of the goal number, 10,000 people have already provided their information.

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  • Door County Emergency Support Coalition connecting those in need with those who can

    March 23, 2020 |

    WLUK-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Door County, Wisconsin

    The Door County Emergency Support Coalition has emerged from the joining of multiple local entities to provide one source of COVID-19 support for residents. Services include shopping and delivering groceries, securing absentee ballots, and a drive-through voting system. The Coalition now has 300 volunteers and are looking to expand further to meet the needs of their neighbors.

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  • Housing rents in big cities: What happens if we regulate them?

    March 23, 2020 |

    Global Government Forum |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Rising rents are being addressed through a variety of interventions in cities around the world. While rent control has worked in some cities, it has been a lesson of what does not work for others. Policies to keep rent affordable have included negotiations between tenants and landlords, limiting price increases, and even freezing rents. The effects - both long and short term - of these measures have all depended on the fluctuating variables in each city.

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  • Hickey Freeman workers to help make medical masks for RGH

    March 23, 2020 |

    WXXI |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    A longstanding Rochester company called Hickey Freeman, which specializes in tailored clothing, has begun to use its sewing machines to create facemasks for frontline health workers. At full capacity, the factory leadership expects to make hundreds of thousands of masks.

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  • South Korea's Coronavirus Plan Is Working; Can the World Copy It? 

    March 23, 2020 |

    Voice of America (VOA) |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    In South Korea, some experts have credited detailed messaging and public information on infected individuals with flattening the curve and keeping the COVID-19 outbreak from spreading further around the country. To compile these alerts, the government uses in-person interviews and personal information such as bank records, phone GPS data, and surveillance footage, methods which some see as a privacy risk.

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