Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
17 June 2021
Milan, Italy
Text
800-1500 Words
Milan’s tampone sospeso or “suspended test” initiative provides rapid COVID-19 tests to stop the spread of the virus. The initiative sets up in highly visible public areas of Milan and is based on a model of mutual su...
9 June 2021
Germany
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Germany, where vaccination rollout has been slow, rapid antigen COVID-19 tests are used to allow people to attend indoor social, business, education, and personal care activities. There are 15,000 pop-up testing si...
28 April 2021
Senegal
Text
Over 3000 Words
Senegal limited COVID-19 cases in the pandemic’s first year using an existing infrastructure built from dealing with Ebola outbreaks. Coordinated emergency response teams quickly expanded testing capacity across the c...
27 March 2021
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Santa Barbara County, county officials have used findings from the Latinx & Indigenous Migrant COVID-19 Response Task Force to inform the placement of testing pop-up locations during the pandemic. Most recently, th...
8 March 2021
Sacramento, California, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Jesuit High School in Northern California has remained open in full for two months without encountering a single outbreak of Covid-19 amongst school attendants. While it hasn't been inexpensive, the parochial school r...
4 March 2021
Massachusetts, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In Massachussetts, a two-month long state-run pilot program is allowing some schools to resume in-person classes. Each week, more than 300,000 students are tested through the program. Instead of individual tests, the ...
1 March 2021
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
School Without Walls is an offshoot of a summer learning and enrichment program that Ladson-Billings and Jones launched back in June to help 3rd- and 4th-graders confronting pandemic-related learning loss. In a time o...
28 February 2021
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Determined to keep San Antonio schools open, the newly created nonprofit Community Labs is running an assurance testing operation at a size and scale unique in the country. Used with other mitigation strategies, assur...
The Atlantic
Madeline Drexler
10 February 2021
Bhutan
Text
1500-3000 Words
Despite being a small and historically underresourced nation, Bhutan has managed to contain the spread of the coronavirus and avoid all but one death from the virus during the entire duration of the pandemic thus far....
8 February 2021
Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
13 Washington school districts are piloting COVID-19 testing. By doing so, they can catch stop asymptomatic people from spreading the virus, offer testing to families who might not have access, and add a “sense of sec...
2 February 2021
Rwanda
Game
Under 800 Words
Before the first case of Covid-19 was reported within country borders, Rwanda had already started preparations – including a testing strategy and contact tracing – to prevent the spread of the virus. Although resource...
2 February 2021
Daejon, South Korea
Game
Under 800 Words
During the Covid-19 pandemic in South Korea, officials implemented comprehensive contact tracing strategies and mandatory hospital quarantine for those who tested positive for the virus. All services associated with c...
25 January 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Using data to determine which neighborhoods would likely be disproportionately at risk for COVID-19, the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center has been moving their pop-up testing site to a new area every two weeks a...
Flint Beat
Carmen Nesbitt
17 January 2021
Flint, Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials in Flint, Michigan began tracking the demographics of those who were testing positive for the virus in order to better align the county's public health...
20 December 2020
Finland
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Finland, Norway, and Denmark are three countries that have largely been able to contain the spread of COVID-19 and keep average daily deaths low, by implementing some of the "most relaxed combinations of restrictions....
KXAN-TV
Laney Valian
15 December 2020
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
High school students at Somerset High School in San Antonio, Texas get tested every week for COVID-19. The method is called “assurance testing,” and is a way to target “silent spreaders,” people who have COVID who don...
15 December 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
To address gaps in the healthcare system that were only being exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic for Black Philadelphians, a group of healthcare professionals joined efforts to create the Black Doctors COVID-19 C...
2 December 2020
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In Madison, Wisconsin, the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately impacting the Latino population, but the local community has joined together to advocate for better access to care and information. The efforts hav...
North Carolina Health News
Thomas Goldsmith
20 November 2020
North Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
When nursing homes in North Carolina realized that the coronavirus pandemic had arrived within the state, facility managers and staff began enacting measures to prevent the spread of the virus amongst their residents....
12 November 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, local community members are leading the effort to reach out to those experiencing homelessness during the coronavirus pandemic. This effort has been successful in coordinat...
3 November 2020
Senegal
Text
800-1500 Words
The death toll and infection rate from the coronavirus pandemic have been extravagant in the U.S., especially compared to that of other countries. The difference is largely explained in how different governments handl...
1 November 2020
Hawaii, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A group of health care workers and social workers formed to help connect hard-to-reach communities in Hawaii to COVID-19 testing and information about the pandemic. So far, they have been able to test more than 200 pe...
27 October 2020
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In New Haven, colleges and universities are taking different approaches to COVID-19 testing. Some, like Yale, test students more than once a week. Others are sample testing clusters of students, whatever the method it...
25 October 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
San Francisco's "hammer and dance" approach to handling the coronavirus pandemic has helped the densely populated urban city begin to reopen ahead of much of the rest of California. Although the pandemic has undoubted...
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