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To Combat Coronavirus, Scientists Are Also Breaking Down Barriers

Laura Bliss

April 23, 2020 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: United States

The research field has often been siloed, with each discipline focusing on its own lane, but in the wake of COVID0-19 the shift toward interdisciplinary research is happening – and proving necessary. Often incentivized by grant funding for siloed work, now, researchers are seeing urgent calls to work together against the pandemic. While there have been great strides made across disciplines in the past, the complex issues of our time – climate change, systemic racism, economic inequity – are causing a shift across fields.

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How Cellphones Can Keep People Learning Around The World

Anya Kamenetz

April 22, 2020 |

WBFO |

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Response Location: Uganda

A platform that allows students to receive lessons via text message is being used to complement education efforts in Uganda. In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, one such texting platform has partnered with nonprofits to offer a free WhatsApp course "that covers coronavirus facts and health information."

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Douglas County Got On The Remote Learning Train Early. This Is How Teachers Made It Work

Jenny Brundin

April 22, 2020 |

Colorado Public Radio |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

The transition to remote learning in Douglas County, Colorado, as a result of COVID-19 has been relatively seamless since teachers and students were already familiar with some online learning platforms. Though the district may have lessons for other schools, they are also cautious to acknowledge the advantage they have as a result of the relative wealth and resources of the families they teach.

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Zéro mort du coronavirus : comment expliquer le mystère vietnamien ?

Pierre Le Bris

April 22, 2020 |

Ouest France |

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Response Location: Vietnam

Le Vietnam a pris l'épidémie au sérieux très rapidement et a défini sa politique via un comité interministériel composé de scientifiques. Le succès de ce pays voisin de la Chine émane d'un système de détection qui permet de suivre l'évolution la contagion. Chaque personne contaminée ou potentiellement infectée est testée puis mise en quarantaine.

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Louisiana Hotelier Offers Free Rooms To Medical Workers

David Greene

April 22, 2020 |

KUNM |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

After learning that doctors weren't going home after their shifts for fear of possibly transmitting the coronavirus to their families, a Louisiana hotellier began offering free rooms to medical workers. While the practice isn't financially viable forever, in the short-term, it has been implemented at his other hotels across the country, and healthcare workers are saying it has made a difference for them.

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South Korea Offers a Lesson in Best Practices

Victor Cha

April 21, 2020 |

Foreign Affairs |

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Response Location: South Korea

South Korea's national government took quick action and implemented sweeping policy changes that have helped the country better control the spread of Covid-19. Contact tracing and democratizing the creation of testing supplies were two key aspects, but a major influencer was how quickly the country set these actions into motion by centralizing their approach.

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Rhode Island's successful reopening of child-care programs shows ‘there is a path,' CDC director says

Lena H. Sun

April 21, 2020 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States

A CDC study of Rhode-Island childcare centers revealed that out of the 666 childcare centers that were opened, only four had cases that involved the spread of the virus. That’s because of the strict adherence to safety guidelines such as minimum enrollment, no switching of students between groups, and mask wearing. CDC officials believe this is evidence that reopening of child care is possible if the right precautions are taken.

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How Uganda's history of epidemics has prepared it for COVID-19

Michael Baleke

April 21, 2020 |

PBS NewsHour |

Broadcast TV Programs |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

Having spent a number of years combatting Ebola and Marburg viruses, officials in Uganda were able to quickly set into a motion a series of proactive strategies such as restriction of movement, surveillance strategies, and widespread testing to help contain the coronavirus outbreak. Although the approach isn't without its limitations – many are stockpiling groceries out of fear – the rapid and aggressive measures have kept the country's caseload low compared to that of other African nations.

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Want to end state lockdowns? Send in the coronavirus detectives.

Simon Montlake

April 21, 2020 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

As a method known as contact tracing, in which disease detectives track and monitor the interactions and movements of known infected people, has been hailed as a success in countries like South Korea, the United States has begun to employ the technique as it considers reopening parts of the economy. Relying heavily on widespread testing, contact tracing is already being used in Massachusetts, where an organization called Partners for Health trained 300 volunteers as contact tracers.

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In a Philippine indigenous stronghold, traditions keep COVID-19 at bay

Karlston Lapniten

April 21, 2020 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Indonesia, Cordillera Administrative Region

To combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, provinces in the northern Philippines have implemented a tengao, an indigenous version of a lockdown. Since community elders invoked the lockdown, the region has recorded few cases of infection. Government officials said these practices, including other indigenous rituals, have complemented quarantine orders enforced by the national government.

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