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1 May 2020
Washington, United States
Video
5-15 Minutes
As one of the most consequential presidential elections in the United States approaches in the midst of a pandemic, many Americans are worried about voter turnout, and other logistical concerns. But a simple answer ex...
1 May 2020
Vietnam
Text
800-1500 Words
Although Vietnam had a limited ability to treat coronavirus patients due to lack of treatment infrastructures, the country has been able to keep their case count low by implementing aggressive testing, contact tracing...
29 April 2020
Paris, France
Text
800-1500 Words
Researchers and public health experts across the world are turning to "wastewater-based-epidemiology" as a practice that could help trace and track the spread of COVID-19. This methodology has already proved successfu...
27 April 2020
Georgetown, Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
West Texas, traditionally known for its oil business, has become a thriving home for wind energy. Beyond political ideology, wind power as a form of renewable energy is thriving for economic reasons, as it can be more...
17 April 2020
Bozeman, Montana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As the United States looks toward reopening, some states are preparing by directing resources toward contact tracing strategies, which is not a new protocol for controlling communicable disease and has shown success i...
16 April 2020
Massachusetts, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
While East Asian countries have found success in deploying technology to do contact tracing, or a method of virus containment in which disease detectives track and monitor the interactions and movements of known infec...
9 April 2020
Rhode Island, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Rhode Island, a collaborative, farmer-run food delivery service has come together as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As farmers around the state saw massive declines in orders, they came together to create an ...
7 April 2020
Portland, Oregon, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The idea of “feeding the frontline” - donating funds to purchase restaurant food that can be delivered to frontline healthcare works amidst the COVID-19 crisis - has spread like wildfire. In cities from San Francisco ...
Noozhawk
Barry Punzal
7 April 2020
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Zoomers to Boomers, a Santa Barbara-based services offering grocery delivery to senior citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic, has grown. What started as a local service, has grown to serve more than 10 cities across t...
5 April 2020
Czech Republic
Text
Over 3000 Words
Using cryptocurrency mining, technological innovation, and entrepreneurial thinking, Parallel Garden, a Czech-based initiative, is tackling unsustainable agricultural practices. The project seeks to increase local foo...
30 March 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Philadelphia medical centers had to pivot their services in response to COVID-19, turning to telehealth to screen patients who think they’re experiencing symptoms. That pivot took some adjusting – having to hire and t...
26 March 2020
Daegu, South Korea
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
South Korea, despite being a close neighbor to China, where the COVID-19 outbreak originated, managed to build a swift public health and government response that may have lessons for other countries fighting the pande...
26 March 2020
Singapore, Singapore
Text
800-1500 Words
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 countr...
25 March 2020
Daegu, South Korea
Text
1500-3000 Words
South Korea’s rapid response to COVID-19 shares many successes that can be duplicated by other countries. Its main advantage came from its ability to create tests rapidly, which could happen quickly because of prepare...
24 March 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As the COVID19 pandemic continues, officials are looking ahead to the United States’ presidential election in November and considering mail-in ballots. While it is a limited-contact way of voting, it presents massive ...
South China Morning Post
Zinnia Lee
19 March 2020
Seoul, South Korea
Video
Under 3 Minutes
To prevent the transmission of coronavirus to medical professionals and other patients, a hospital in Seoul has started using a make-shift phone booth approach to administering tests. Within seven minutes, doctors are...
14 March 2020
Seoul, South Korea
Text
800-1500 Words
As countries have attempted various responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea’s response stands out for its swift ability to disseminate and scale testing for the disease, which mostly came about in reaction to ...
11 March 2020
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
As coronavirus continues to spread around the world, social distancing is being implemented due to its proven success with helping to drastically slow the spread of the Spanish flu in St. Louis Missouri. In a comparis...
10 March 2020
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
A green roof initiative is one of the projects Rotterdam, a city in the Netherlands, is working on to capture and store more rainwater; a solution that might work in Louisiana. With heavier rains and more intense stor...
6 March 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
When virologists and genomicists in Seattle, Washington realized that COVID-19 was likely to spread to the United States, they began to research ways to keep vulnerable poplulations safe. So far, early success has com...
2 March 2020
Cascade Lockes, Oregon, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Washington State could pass one of the toughest restrictions on water bottling operations in the United States, thanks to activists who raised environmental concerns over a bottling facility that wanted to open in a t...
24 February 2020
Thibodaux, Louisiana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Despite a strong gun-rights culture in the state, Louisiana law enforcement agencies use aggressive gun-confiscation laws and procedures to disarm domestic abusers as part of a wider array of protections for victims. ...
6 February 2020
Columbia, Maryland, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Across the United States, people are growing “climate victory gardens” in an effort to reconnect people with nature, fight climate change, and produce healthy food. These gardens prioritize soil health above all else,...
31 January 2020
Park City, Utah, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
With rural areas and mountain towns increasingly facing traffic issues during peak outdoor season or other temporary population growth periods, some have modeled responses after urban transit plans. Park City, the hos...
16 December 2019
Bangkok, Thailand
Text
1500-3000 Words
There are six countries that have reached "90–90–90" targets meaning, "90 percent of people with HIV in a country know their status, 90 percent of those diagnosed are on treatment, and 90 percent on treatment are vira...
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