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  • Volunteers rally to produce homemade face masks for coronavirus medical workers

    March 26, 2020 |

    Orange County Register |

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    Businesses and individuals around the world are pivoting from business-as-usual to churning out masks to fill shortages in supplies for hospital staff and others amid COVID-19.

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  • How Carnicerias, Liquor Stores, Tienditas And Latino Supermarkets Are Feeding Their Neighborhoods

    March 26, 2020 |

    LAist |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Local staples in Latino neighborhoods like carnicerias, liquor stores, tienditas, and gas stations are standing strong on the front line to continue to provide essentials people need during the coronavirus. As other supermarkets are ransacked, these businesses make sure to remain well-stocked with policies that limit the number of items and customers. Locals testify to the importance of having a corner store that anchors the community together during this crisis.

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  • Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic Audio icon

    March 26, 2020 |

    Texas Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    With experience from past regional disasters and supply-chain disruptions, supermarket chain H-E-B faced the coronavirus chaos with calm preparation, ensuring employees and management act quickly to mitigate their losses - and to keep their shoppers healthy. The chain got a head start by asking suppliers in heavily affected areas - like Italy - for tips and tricks, enforcing early-on social distancing rules, and increasing sick leave for employees.

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  • Engineers Made a DIY Face Shield. Now It's Helping Doctors

    March 26, 2020 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    A group of engineers in Madison, Wisconsin designed a face shield using materials and machines that were capable of producing mass quantities of the shields for hospitals. The design is now open-source and accessible to anyone on the web. They have since sent more than 1,000 face shields to the local hospital, and Ford has even picked up the design, pledging to produce more than 75,000 shields to be sent to hospitals in Detroit.

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  • Chicago Distillers Build a Vigilante Hand Sanitizer Industry

    March 26, 2020 |

    Chicago Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Many Chicago distilleries are utilizing their abundance of high-proof alcohol to create hand sanitizer to fill a gap in the market due to the coronavirus pandemic. While a portion of the product is being donated to first responders and frontline workers, this new business endeavor is also helping distillery owners keep their employees on payroll and their businesses open.

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  • ‘COVID-19 Clearinghouse': Project N95 is matching hospitals with PPE suppliers

    March 26, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Dozens of tech-focused volunteers have come together to create Project N95, a personal protective equipment clearinghouse meant to connect health institutions in need of equipment like masks with suppliers around the world. This central marketplace aims to bridge the two parties in a single place along an otherwise complex supply chain.

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  • With Food For All Poor and Door-to-Door Coronavirus Screening, Pandemic-hit Bhilwara Sets Example for Rest of India

    March 26, 2020 |

    News18 India |

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    Response Location: India, Bhilwara, Rajasthan

    Bhilwara, India has provided food, masks, hand sanitizer, and door-to-door coronavirus screening to 600,000 residents who are not allowed to leave their houses during a total lockdown due to an outbreak of coronavirus. The generosity of donors from NGOs, charities, and individuals was managed efficiently by local government who handed out food staples to thousands of households.

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  • Coronavirus kindness: South Bay teens create tutor network for hundreds of students

    March 26, 2020 |

    KGO-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Upon seeing a need for educational resources to support the out of school transition due to the COVID-19 outbreak, two high school seniors in the San Jose area stepped up to fill that gap. Sarika Sriram and Uditha Velidandla coordinated 90 volunteers to offer free tutoring in a range of school subjects. So far, over 350 students have benefitted from these comprehensive online learning sessions.

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  • Crocs is donating 10,000 pairs of free shoes to US healthcare workers every day until stocks last

    March 26, 2020 |

    Business Insider |

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    Crocs are ideal footwear for healthcare workers because they are easy to disinfect and easy on the feet. To do their part in the fight against the coronavirus, Crocs is donating over 10,000 pairs of shoes online to those on the front line (until supplies last). They also plan to donate an additional 100,000 pairs to various hospitals and clinics around the country.

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  • Global lessons for Santa Cruz in the COVID-19 response

    March 26, 2020 |

    Santa Cruz Local |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Cruz, California

    Cities and states throughout the U.S. are in forms of lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic, including Santa Cruz County in California. Although this practice is one way to mitigate the spread, institutions in Santa Cruz are looking to other countries that have have seen success with a "test-trace-quarantine model."

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