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  • South Korea's ‘phone booth' coronavirus tests

    March 19, 2020 |

    South China Morning Post |

    Video |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    To prevent the transmission of coronavirus to medical professionals and other patients, a hospital in Seoul has started using a make-shift phone booth approach to administering tests. Within seven minutes, doctors are able to communicate with the patient, conduct the test from within an air-tight booth, and then disinfect the booth, all of which have significantly improved the hospital's efficiency of administering the test.

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  • Inside the South Korean Labs Churning Out Coronavirus Tests

    March 19, 2020 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    After witnessing chaos during the MERS outbreak, South Korea immediately began implementing measures to avoid disaster should another public health crisis occur. Now, as the COVID-19 pandemic impacts much of the world, the country has been able to successfully deploy their new and improved emergency response system – which includes letting hospitals and medical professionals play a larger role – and their accelerated approval system, allowing tests to be created at a more efficient pace.

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  • Bodegas and Corner Stores Are Part of Crisis Response — They're Also Uniquely Vulnerable

    March 19, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, bodegas offer local supplies in many food deserts across the country. While the bodegas struggle to find funding and stay in business for their neighborhoods, they also fight their way into policy discussions and micro-loan programs to stay afloat for low-income neighbors needing healthy food options.

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  • Farming Insects to Save Lemurs

    March 19, 2020 |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Madagascar

    In Madagascar, insect researchers, regional conservationists, and humanitarian organizations have teamed up to promote the farming of crickets as a way to help preserve forests, save animals, and fight malnutrition. Although the pilot project is still fairly new, it has been well-received my communities and studies have already shown that consuming cricket powder has substantial benefits for children who are underweight.

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  • A megachurch has helped test nearly 1,000 people for coronavirus in two days

    March 19, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

    Birmingham, Alabama’s Church of the Highlands has opened up a drive-through COVID19 testing station that has already seen over 1,000 people. By coordinating with Alabama’s governor, the church is able to help test people who are showing symptoms and then give them directives on what to do next, whether it be to go to the hospital or go home and rest. Those with health insurance get their insurance billed, but for those without, they don’t have to pay at all.

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  • A Pandemic And A Parade: What 1918 tells us about flattening the curve

    March 18, 2020 |

    Newsy |

    Documentary |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Enacting social distancing and mass closures of schools, businesses, and other industries during the times of virus outbreaks has been shown to slow the waves of infection, as first witnessed during the era of the Spanish Flu when one American city acted proactively while another did not. In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, areas that began social distancing practices sooner are already reporting a flattened curve of cases, which helps hospitals avoid overcrowding.

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  • Grocery stores across U.S. reserve shopping hours for senior citizens during coronavirus outbreak

    March 18, 2020 |

    CBS News |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    As the coronavirus spreads across the United States, some grocery stores are designating specific shopping hours for older and immunocompromised residents. This allows shoppers to stock up in a less crowded environment and reduces the risk that hey will get infected.

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  • How the U.S. can defeat coronavirus: Heed Asia's lessons from past epidemics

    March 18, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: South Korea

    As much of Europe and the United States are still in the early stages of trying to contain the coronavirus, countries in Asia offer several lessons in mitigation strategies. Rapid government intervention and regulation helped to slow the spread in Taiwan while in South Korea, increased transparency and mass testing – made possible because the country opened the process to the private sector – have shown to have helped flatten the curve of transmission.

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  • Restaurant owner adapts to keep employees working amid coronavirus outbreak

    March 18, 2020 |

    WEWS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Grafton, Ohio

    Many businesses have been forced to close due to the coronavirus pandemic, but some restaurants – such as one in Grafton, Ohio – are turning their in-house servers into delivery drivers to stay open. As a means to both provide for the community and for the employees, restaurant owners are using the conversion from dine-in to to-go to bolster their financial reality.

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  • Biohackers team up online to help develop coronavirus solutions

    March 18, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    A growing online community of scientists is collaborating in the search for solutions to the coronavirus pandemic. The "DIY biohacking" movement is inspiring the creation of faster tests, new methods for making masks and ventilators, and more.

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