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  • 'Pray At Home!' Houses Of Worship Close Physical Doors, Open Virtual Ones

    March 24, 2020 |

    Bklynr |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In New York City, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, houses of worship are urging their followers to pray at home. Synagogues, mosques, and churches alike are looking at alternative ways to worship, like teleconferencing and public access television.

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  • Supercomputers Recruited To Hunt For Clues To A COVID-19 Treatment

    March 24, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

    As scientists across the planet are racing to develop a vaccine to fight the novel coronavirus, the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium is using supercomputers to identify or create drug compounds that might prevent or treat a COVID-19 infection. The computing power of these supercomputers allows scientists to rapidly conduct their research.

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  • The COVID-19 crisis is giving parents a taste of digital ‘unschooling'

    March 24, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    With school shut down due to the spread of coronavirus, distance learning has become the norm in many cities and parents have largely had to adjust their roles to include teaching and supervision. To help with this adjustment, teachers have begun offering online homeschooling classes that teach parents how to facilitate learning for their children.

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  • How the COVID Tracking Project fills the public health data gap

    March 24, 2020 |

    Columbia Journalism Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The COVID Tracking Project is a grassroots, crowdsourced, publicly-accessible tool that provides more detailed and updated information about the state of the Coronavirus than the CDC does. It is the only source on COVID-19 that relies on humans to collect and make sense of data. The project now includes about sixty-five volunteers and aims to put pressure on the decision-makers responsible for testing and containment.

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  • Can location data from smartphones help slow the coronavirus? Facebook is giving academics a chance to try

    March 24, 2020 |

    STAT |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Facebook collects data from people that choose to share their location with the app, and have started sharing it with various researchers who are trying to track the spread of the novel coronavirus. They share the data anonymously, so as to avoid the privacy issues they’ve faced in the past, and researchers aggregate “the signals into a picture of flows of people” to track connectivity and movement. Beyond researchers, nonprofits are also using it to help disseminate medical resources to highly affected areas.

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  • How schools went virtual — in just 72 hours Audio icon

    March 24, 2020 |

    The Boulder Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Montana

    In just a few days, Montana’s Jefferson County school district had to adapt to remote teaching in an attempt to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the governor leaving it up to schools and teachers to figure out how. From using Zoom to teleconference with students, to calling parents regularly, to figuring out if and how to use computers at all, teachers and administrators are learning how to provide structure and learning to kids from afar.

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  • Coronavirus Has Hospitals in Desperate Need of Equipment. These Innovators Are Racing to Help.

    March 24, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    As personal protective equipment becomes increasingly hard to find, university labs, engineers, and individuals are taking part in a crowdsourced effort to create alternatives. Although their 3D designs and repurposed shields don't take the place of PPE, they do act as safe back-ups for frontline workers facing a shortage.

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  • This tool is helping cities find the neighborhoods most vulnerable to coronavirus

    March 24, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    A new urban planning tool called Urban Footprint is helping governments to map out their most vulnerable neighborhoods and populations. Originally designed in 2018 to help city planners make sense of large data sets and understand the implication of potential policies on traffic, energy use, or multiple other factors, Urban Footprint was easily adapted to pull in data from the CDC and other inputs for COVID-19 considerations.

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  • Medical Students, Sidelined for Now, Find New Ways to Fight Coronavirus

    March 23, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Medical students have found creative ways to pitch in during the Coronavirus pandemic when they are not yet certified to work with patients. Students across the country are organizing to help out by doing things like offering childcare for medical workers and sourcing personal protective equipment from a range of businesses. The students themselves say that they are happy to do "anything we can do to relieve burden on the real heroes.”

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  • Coronavirus: Platform Matches Tech Talent with Gov in Need

    March 23, 2020 |

    Government Technology |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    A new platform, nicknamed the U.S. Digital Response for COVID-19, is connecting volunteer technologists, engineers, and other tech-leaning experts with state, county, and local governments in desperate need of help during the crisis. The creators aimed to create a clearinghouse for data and digital leaders looking to volunteer, and they noted that already 1000 volunteers have signed up.

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