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  • Coronavirus Update: Snow Sport Community Steps Up To Donate Goggles, Masks To Front-Line Workers

    Skiers and snowboarders are donating their used snow goggles to be repurposed as personal protective equipment during the coronavirus. Helping to address a need nationwide, the snow-sport community is "providing an instant improvised answer to a critical shortage," while ski companies are also pitching in by donating KN95 respirator masks.

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  • RVs for MDs: Matching RVs with Medical Professionals Battling COVID-19

    ER doctors and other hospital staff who need to isolate themselves from their families can use a camper or mobile home to create a safe distance. The Facebook match-making group, RVs for MDs To Fight the Coronavirus, has connected hundreds of camper and RV owners to healthcare workers in need of extra living space. The network has grown to include thousands of members willing to offer the use of their campers free of charge.

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  • From Julia Louis-Dreyfus' house to N95-like masks: Architects join the COVID-19 fight

    By running a network of 3-D printers, universities like USC and UCLA Extension, as well as volunteer firms and nonprofits mobilize their resources to create backup masks. The masks are more effective than basic disposable surgical masks, and serve as reserves for hospitals in the region. The network operates with the assistance of the Los Angeles Mayor’s office.

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  • 12 Ways Communities Are Taking Care of Each Other During the Pandemic

    With a crisis as ubiquitous as the COVID-19 pandemic, silver bullets simply do not exist. Fortunately, many grassroots initiatives have sprung up around the United States, like Pass the Lettuce, which encourages people to donate their stimulus checks if they are able, the Coronavirus Relief Fund, which provides relief to domestic workers forced to stay home, and the Sex Worker Relief Fund, which gives aid to sex workers who are outside of the system.

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  • New Zealand isn't just flattening the curve. It's squashing it.

    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 used a comprehensive and aggressive approach which included shutting their borders down to tourists, mandating a 4-week lockdown, and announcing a coronavirus response alert plan.

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  • Volunteers fixed 20,000 N95 masks for Memphis hospital in a weekend

    By recruiting friends and community members, volunteers were able to repair thousands of protective masks. Having been in storage, a large collection of N95 masks had had the elastic dry rot while the filters remained usable. The volunteers sewed new straps onto the masks, intended for Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in Tennessee.

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  • ‘Dial-A-Priest': Episcopal Clergy Offering Final Prayers Remotely

    Connecting to a priest—by video or telephone—can offer relief to those dying alone. The Virginia Theological Seminary and General Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, recently launched Dial-A-Priest, a service that allows patients to pray with Episcopal priests. The hotline connects callers to a network of priests on duty to offer final prayer services, 24-hours a day.

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  • Orange County Lab Runs Coronavirus Tests in 90 Minutes Audio icon

    Three people in Orange County came together to fill the gap in testing in their area. A surgeon named Dr. Yalamanchili, a scientist named Dr. Chris Crock, and a laboratory owner named Michelle Huston joined forces to create an independent testing lab that can produce results in only 90 minutes. Right now the lab is conducting up to 100 tests a day, and the three of them are also encouraging others to open independent labs to fill the gaps.

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  • Cancer Support Group Helps Each Other During Quarantine

    Immunocompromized individuals are under stricter guidelines to not leave their homes during the coronavirus because they are more susceptible to contracting the virus, but that can leave many feeling isolated. To manage that isolation for cancer patients, the nonprofit Cancer Support Community Redondo Beach is using online technology to connect community members through support groups.

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  • Sladké plody chilské války s cukrem

    Chile je nejobéznější zemí Jižní Ameriky a po Spojených státech druhou nejobéznější zemí světa. Tamní vláda proto přistoupila k svéráznému řešení - zavedla černé výstražné nálepky na obalech nezdravých potravin. Ty upozorňují zákazníky na vysoký obsah cukru, nasycených tuků, sodíku či kalorií. Na vládní strategii zareagovali vedle spotřebitelů, kteří novému řešení přizpůsobili své nákupní návyky, také místní potravinářské firmy. Zatímco některé z nich opatření kritizovaly, jiné pozměnily recepturu svých produktů tak, aby se varovným štítkům vyhnuly.

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