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17 April 2020
New Mexico, United States
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800-1500 Words
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham was quick to start implementing measures to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, prior to the state reporting any cases. Although it's yet to be seen what the long term im...
17 April 2020
South Korea
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
South Korea held a national election during the Covid-19 pandemic by taking extensive sanitation and health screening measures. In addition to mandatory face protection and social distancing, voters’ temperatures were...
16 April 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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800-1500 Words
Local officials and healthcare providers in Massachusetts are focusing efforts on equitably distributing tests by introducing rapid response testing in communities of color. Community members can get tested at an on-s...
NPR
Michael Sullivan
16 April 2020
Vietnam
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Under 800 Words
Vietnam has been praised for their collective response to containing coronavirus which was predicated on early and aggressive action and applying lessons learned from earlier communicable disease outbreaks. Although t...
16 April 2020
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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800-1500 Words
Libraries satisfy a wide range of needs for the communities they serve, and the one in Rochester is no different. The Rochester Public Library has established a COVID-19 hotline for residents to ask any question they ...
16 April 2020
Chengala, Kerala, India
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800-1500 Words
The state of Kerala, India has been particularly effective in their fight against COVID-19. Kerala happens to have a grassroots democracy with community leaders and the consent of the people, as well as a decentralize...
16 April 2020
Wyoming, United States
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Under 800 Words
The Wind River Family and Community Healthcare in Wyoming has been able to conduct a significant number of COVID-19 tests due to their early preparedness strategy. By early February, the clinic had begun drafting thei...
15 April 2020
Palakkad, Kerala, India
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800-1500 Words
The Kudumbashree Mission aims to encourage agrobiodiversity projects in India and empower women farmers. These projects revive traditional and sustainable farming practices called “panchakrishi.” So far, there are 192...
15 April 2020
South Korea
Multi-Media
3-5 Minutes
Extra sanitation and health screening precautions allowed South Korea to hold a national election during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mandatory face protection, rubber gloves, taking voters’ temperatures, and providing hand...
14 April 2020
Greece
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800-1500 Words
Greece took a proactive approach to contain the coronavirus – screening people as they entered the country even before any confirmed cases had been reported and then quarantining anyone returning from Spain in hotel r...
14 April 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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800-1500 Words
An online tool called Mighty serves as a “Tripadvisor” for banks, connecting users with publicly-available data on how banks across the United States use their money so that they can make informed decisions when it co...
11 April 2020
France
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800-1500 Words
European countries like France and Germany have been able to keep their unemployment rates low because of pre-existing programs that have been called to action during COVID-19. In France, the government subsidizes up ...
10 April 2020
South Korea
Video
5-15 Minutes
Having learned lessons from the 2015 MERS outbreak, South Korea was quick to implement both widespread testing and contact tracing at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Although cases were only just beginning to be r...
The Guardian
Michael Baker
Nick Wilson
10 April 2020
New Zealand
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800-1500 Words
Adopting vigorous public health interventions early on is key when aiming for elimination over mitigation. In contrast to many countries mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic by “flattening the curve,” New Zealand’s early ...
10 April 2020
Athens, Greece
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Under 800 Words
The speed of the response matters in mitigating the public health impact of a pandemic. Greece, which acted to restrict non-essential movement faster than countries like Spain and Italy, has sufewera fewer cases of CO...
9 April 2020
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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1500-3000 Words
By taking prompt action to shut down major tourist events and increase medical treatment capacity, Ohio’s early response to COVID-19 has, thus far, helped to temper the surge of confirmed cases in the state. Governor ...
9 April 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
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Under 800 Words
The newest caseload numbers out of California have indicated that the state has been at least somewhat successful in containing the coronavirus outbreak, but residents are still being instructed to keep social distanc...
9 April 2020
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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800-1500 Words
A fleet of mobile health units across the nation have been helping low-income and immigrant communities to access public health care resources, but during the coronavirus pandemic, the focus has shifted to providing r...
9 April 2020
California, United States
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800-1500 Words
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 publ...
9 April 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
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 homelessn...
Stateline
Christine Vestal
Michael Ollove
8 April 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
Across the U.S. many state hospitals and forming partnerships with each other and hospitals in other states to better address the coronavirus pandemic. Washington's hospital system is emerging as a model for collectiv...
Grady Newsource
Jack Binder
7 April 2020
Athens, Georgia, United States
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Under 800 Words
Citizens across Northeast Georgia are participating in grassroots community efforts to help supply masks for health workers. A Facebook group called, "Mask Making for Athens Area Healthcare Workers," is providing guid...
7 April 2020
New Zealand
Text
800-1500 Words
New Zealand has managed to not just flatten the curve, but has shown signs of eliminating the coronavirus thanks to rapid interventions taken by the government. Heeding the outcomes in the U.S. and Italy, the country ...
7 April 2020
Singapore
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1500-3000 Words
Several Asian nations have successfully slowed the spread of coronavirus and may now offer lessons for the U.S. and Europe. Although each took its own approach, commonalities included governmental oversight, early int...
Bored Panda
Judita Kusaitytė
3 April 2020
South Korea
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
As told through the words of citizens on social media, this article lays out a number of ways the government of South Korean has been able to contain the virus. A notable thing is the care package mailed to everyone, ...
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