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  • Bend it like the Bay Area: Doctors see flatter curve after 2 weeks of social isolation

    March 30, 2020 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    As the coronavirus outbreak began to show signs of spreading the United States, six counties in the Bay Area of California quickly instituted stay at home and shelter-in-place orders. Although the virus is still spreading in much of the country, the early and aggressive measures taken in this region are believed to have contributed to the lower-than-expected caseload reported by hospitals in these counties.

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  • Technology To Clean And Reuse PPE Is Being Deployed To Hotspot Hospitals

    March 30, 2020 |

    NPR |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    As the fight against COVID-19 continues, Ohio-based Battelle labs has created the Critical Care Decontamination System that can clean as many as 80,000 of personal protective equipment at once. The system, which was fast-tracked by the FDA for approval, is modular and scalable, so it can be shipped to locations around the country.

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  • They were supposed to build stages for Coachella. Now they're building coronavirus triage tents

    March 30, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    When coronavirus began spreading throughout the United States, one of the earliest actions taken was to cancel large events, which meant that production firms also lost work. In Los Angeles, the firm that is typically responsible for building the tents, staging, and facilities for such events have now turned their efforts to helping construct medical villages.

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  • States swap COVID-19 test supplies to fight shortage

    March 30, 2020 |

    Inforum |

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    Response Location: United States, North Dakota

    Facing a supply shortage, North Dakota and South Dakota arranged a no-cost swap of needed COVID19 testing supplies. Both states are part of the Northern Plains Consortium, made up of five states’ public health lab workers in an ongoing effort to collaborate and learn from one another. And those relationships paid off when the Dakotas needed to cooperate to share supplies in order to test their residents.

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  • FDA grants emergency authorization to system that decontaminates N95 respirator masks for re-use

    March 30, 2020 |

    TechCrunch |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    In an effort to fill the deficit of face masks for healthcare workers, the Food and Drug Administration gave emergency authorization to development and lab management company Battelle to sanitize used masks for reuse. Their system decontaminates N95 respirator masks using concentrated hydrogen peroxide and can turn single-use respirators into masks that can be used up to 20 times. The system is underway in their Ohio facility and is producing up to 80,000 masks per day.

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  • These Philly doctors have COVID-19, but they're still treating patients — virtually

    March 30, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    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 train staff in the technology and process and scaling their services to meet the massive spike in online appointments. Doing so has let places like Jefferson Health and Penn Medicine see close to 10x the patients they usually see.

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  • Quilters sew hundreds of face mask covers for first responders

    March 30, 2020 |

    KIRO-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Olympia, Washington

    In Olympia, Washington, the local Washington Stars Quilt Guild is hard at work sewing protective face coverings and masks for first responders and frontline health workers in need. The face masks are intended to protect the exterior of the high demand N95 masks.

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  • Coronavirus: Is Bay Area social distancing lockdown working? Some see progress

    March 30, 2020 |

    San Jose Mercury News |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    As California’s Bay Area is weeks into its shelter-in-place order – the first in the nation – experts are seeing indications that it’s working in the fight against COVID19, but at the same time needs to continue. Health officials are seeing signs that the increase of cases could be flattening, which was the goal of social distancing, and has been giving the area more time to prepare for a spike, which other experts say is inevitable. Either way, the stay-at-home mandate is helping reduce strain on the healthcare system.

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  • Food waste and food insecurity rising amid coronavirus panic

    March 30, 2020 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: United States

    With restaurants closing and people panic-buying groceries, food waste is inevitably going to rise. There are many initiatives going on throughout the United States to address this very issue. For example, nonprofit Rethink in New York City pays restaurant staff to create meals out of the surplus ingredients that other restaurants have, which are then sold to the public with a $3 donation. For individuals, there are even ways to shift your behavior with preserving and consuming the food you buy that will allow them to last longer and be eaten in entirety.

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  • [밀착카메라] 검체 채취까지 5분…워킹스루 진료소 가보니

    March 30, 2020 |

    JTBC 뉴스 |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: South Korea, Incheon

    인천공항을 통해 입국하는 외국인들을 빠르고 효율적으로 검사하기 위해 공항 한 켠에 워킹스루 진료소가 설치되었습니다. 이에 더해 자가진단앱과 이동자 분리 등을 통한 신뢰도 높은 검역 시스템이 해외입국자들의 호응을 얻고 있습니다.

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