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COVID-19 has infected populations around the world and has put medical researchers, policy makers, and other government officials to the test to respond to the issue.
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https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2021/02/25/bread-baking-mutual-aid?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Lynn Freehill-Maye
Yes! Magazine
25 February 2021
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A community effort to help provide food to those who are food insecure during the pandemic has brought together local bakers to bake bread for food banks. The initiative, known as Community Loaves, has amassed 700 volunteers and donated 15,000 loaves to 11 food pantries across the Seattle area, and is now also gaining momentum in Oregon.
https://news.wbfo.org/post/green-house-nursing-homes-kept-covid-cases-low-small-sizes-private-rooms-universal-workers?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Tom Dinki
WBFO
22 February 2021
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The Green House Project, which is a network model of nursing homes across states, has been able to largely avoid the spread of Covid-19 amongst residents, with five times fewer cases than the national nursing home average. While the small size of the nursing homes has played a role, it has also been beneficial that each resident has their own bedroom and bathroom and that staff employ a universal worker model that limits the number of nursing assistants coming and going from each facility.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-mass-self-testing-for-covid-19-keep-schools-safe-11613908800?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Ruth Bender
Wall Street Journal
21 February 2021
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Schools in Austria are teaching schoolchildren how to use noninvasive antigen tests to test themselves for COVID-19, in an attempt to keep schools open and coronavirus spread low. Although some question how reliable these tests are, a few hundred cases have been detected so far and almost all parents and teachers "have embraced the testing offer."
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2021/0219/Vaccine-nationalism-Why-Jordan-includes-refugees-in-rollout?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Taylor Luck
Christian Science Monitor
19 February 2021
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The Jordan government is prioritizing offering the Covid-19 vaccine to refugees before most citizens with the goal of decreasing the transmission rate for those who must live closely together and in crowded conditions. Working with The U.N. Refugee Agency, this antidote to "so-called vaccine nationalism" has been received well by citizens and has allowed the Jordanian government to already distribute a "remarkable" number of the vaccines to those in refugee camps.
https://thecounter.org/pandemic-us-fisheries-covid-19-seafood-csf?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Katarina Zimmer
The Counter
18 February 2021
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To weather the uncertainties of the pandemic and geopolitical trade disputes, many small, locally-operated fisheries in the United States have upended the way they do business by selling their catches directly to consumers. For example, OC Wild Seafood in California started to sell its spiny lobsters locally. Though the logistics and regulations can make fish-to-dish initiatives challenging, many community-supported fisheries saw an increase in sales and customers in 2020.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2021/0218/Teacher-in-Greece-offers-hope-to-inmates-through-TV-classes?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Elena Becatoros
Associated Press
18 February 2021
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When the pandemic shut schools down in Greece, that included the schooling system in place for those in Greece’s Avlona Special Youth Detention Center; so, the director of the school started broadcasting lessons over a TV channel. The director and his team worked together to get the station up and running and then with the young men who are incarcerated to popularize it throughout the detention center via word of mouth.
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