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  • With An Election On The Horizon, Older Adults Get Help Spotting Fake News

    March 27, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Maryland

    Senior centers in Maryland are offering media literacy courses to discuss fact-checking and how to spot fake news stories online. A recent study by researchers at Princeton and NYU found that Facebook users over 65 are seven times more likely to post articles from fake news websites as are adults under 29, so digital literacy classes provide tools to help identify fake news sites. Many participants report feeling empowered by the class because they did not grow up online. Despite the interest, these courses are more difficult to integrate widely in senior centers than they would be in a school setting.

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  • France Transfers Coronavirus Patients On High-Speed Train With Mobile Emergency Room

    March 26, 2020 |

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    France is transporting patients from areas with high concentrations of coronavirus victims to areas where hospitals have vacant beds and ventilators. This helps to relieve some pressure on some of the hardest-hit regions.

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  • How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down

    March 26, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Singapore, Singapore

    South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong have all acted in ways that show it is possible to effectively manage the COVID-19 outbreak without shutting down an entire country. The common thread may be that all three countries have dealt with previous coronaviruses: MERS and SARS. This helped them start testing early, limit travel effectively, and track movement and subsequently quarantine people who came into contact with the virus - thus limiting the spread and keeping infected numbers relatively low.

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  • Why Germany's Coronavirus Death Rate Is Far Lower Than In Other Countries

    March 25, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Compared to its European counterparts, Germany has one of the lowest coronavirus fatality rates, around 0.5%. Experts credit the low rate to the country's decentralized diagnostic systems that allow federal states to make their own decisions about testing. The country has averaged about 120,000 tests a week since late February.

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  • Can The U.S. Crowdsource Its Way Out Of A Mask Shortage? No, But It Still Helps

    March 25, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    With a massive shortage of protective gear in the medical community amidst the coronavirus outbreak, volunteer groups are filling the gap by crowdsourcing masks, gowns, and other essential items. Though the government is working on a longer-term fix to the supply shortage, these volunteer groups are able to pick up hand-sewn masks and other donated items from community members and deliver them to medical centers around the country.

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  • States Get Creative To Find And Deploy More Health Workers In COVID-19 Fight

    March 25, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Across the United States, hospitals are looking for ways to fill medical professional shortages as the coronavirus outbreak spreads. One creative solution that has emerged in states such as New York, Hawaii, and New Hampshire is making it easier for both retirees and newly graduated medical students to come back into service.

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  • Supercomputers Recruited To Hunt For Clues To A COVID-19 Treatment

    March 24, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

    As scientists across the planet are racing to develop a vaccine to fight the novel coronavirus, the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium is using supercomputers to identify or create drug compounds that might prevent or treat a COVID-19 infection. The computing power of these supercomputers allows scientists to rapidly conduct their research.

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  • 'We Can't Anoint The Sick': Faith Leaders Seek New Approaches To Pastoral Care

    March 23, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Shady Side, Maryland

    Many churches throughout the U.S. have moved their weekly services online during the coronavirus pandemic, but not all needs can be addressed this way. To help offer services like counseling and individual prayer, some pastors and ministers are offering drive-through services for prayer requests or blessings while others are making hospital visits under the guidance of social distancing rules.

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  • Traveling Nurses, Doctors Fill Gaps In Rural Coverage Ahead Of COVID-19

    March 23, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Barstow, California

    Traveling clinicians are being assigned to rural regions of the U.S. to play a part in helping small, understaffed hospitals respond to the coronavirus outbreak. To make this process easier and more efficient and offer the flexibility that most rural hospitals need, many states have eased licensing requirements "making it easier for travel nurses to move from state to state."

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  • Schools Race To Feed Students Amid Coronavirus Closures

    March 20, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States

    In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, school districts are trying a number of approaches to ensure students still have access to free breakfasts and lunches even though they are not coming to school. In some cities, bus drivers are bringing meals to different neighborhoods. The federal government is also working to transfer what would be spent on school lunches to families in the form of food stamps.

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