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Restrictions Are Slowing Coronavirus Infections, New Data Suggest

Donald G. McNeil Jr.

March 30, 2020 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Kinsa thermometers connect wirelessly to a central database that has been used to track fevers across the United States during the COVID19 pandemic. The data that has been collected has shown that strict orders like business closures and stay-at-home restrictions are working. With public health measures that seek prevention rather than treatment, proof of success can be hard to identify, but these thermometers and their tracking are doing it.

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

John Woolfolk

March 30, 2020 |

San Jose Mercury News |

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800-1500 Words

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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4 lessons the US should learn from Italy's coronavirus mistakes

Dylan Scott

March 29, 2020 |

Vox |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Italy

Given the failure by both the United States and Italy to contain the coronavirus spread soon enough to forestall more extreme measures, the U.S. in the early weeks of its outbreak had much to learn from Italy's mistakes, and from its eventual successes. Among the most critical mistakes: not taking the spread of the virus seriously enough soon enough, and taking half-steps toward locking down hot spots. Italy's Veneto region modeled good practices, including extensive testing and tracing, keeping all but the most critical cases out of hospitals, and strict monitoring of front-line workers.

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Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore: Lessons for Canada in fighting Covid-19

David Kilgour Susan Korah

March 29, 2020 |

The Suburban |

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Response Location: Taiwan

When faced with the coronavirus pandemic, a number of countries around the world "opted for delayed containment strategies," but countries such as Taiwan and Hong Kong, which took the opposite approach, have seen more success with mitigating the spread. The governments in these countries implemented many aggressive initiatives that were aimed at widespread testing, restricted travel, and contact tracing.

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Coronavirus Slowdown in Seattle Suggests Restrictions Are Working

Mike Baker

March 29, 2020 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

After learning of the first cases of coronavirus that weren't contracted by direct exposure or from foreign travel, officials in Washington took quick and strict measures to start introducing social distancing, which may have helped slow the transmission. Although the hospitals are low on supplies, they have not yet been "overrun," indicating that modeling and widespread testing, along with limiting human-to-human interactions and gatherings, were all beneficial parts of the strategy to slow the spread.

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What South Korea can teach Ireland about Covid-19 fight

Justin McCarthy

March 29, 2020 |

Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: South Korea

Countries such as Ireland are looking to South Korea for lessons about best practices in containing the coronavirus outbreak. Much of South Korea's success, shaped by lessons learned from battling the MERS outbreak in 2003, comes from implementing the national infectious diseases control act that "allows for the government to track people, and for the tracking information to be posted online."

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Germany Has Relatively Few Deaths From Coronavirus. Why?

Anna Sauerbrey

March 28, 2020 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Germany

Although Germany has reported over 50,000 cases of coronavirus, the country is seeing a lesser death toll from the pandemic as compared to other countries. Like other countries working to contain the spread, Germany was quick to enact widespread testing a persistent contact tracing, but the country also implemented early measures to protect the more senior residents which has kept the infection rate low for this highly susceptible population.

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Vermont inmates released to spread out population

Anna Merriman

March 28, 2020 |

Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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Response Location: United States, Vermont

To reduce incarcerated people’s exposure to COVID-19 behind bars before anyone had even fallen ill, Vermont officials all but stopped new admissions to state prisons and released hundreds from custody in February and March. Lowering the population by more than 200, from its late December benchmark to late March, was designed to make the prisons less crowded and to avoid introducing people to a potential virus hot spot if at all possible. The measures required coordination among prison officials, courts, prosecutors, and halfway houses.

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COVID-19: Germany sees low fatalities despite high infection rate

Dominic Kane

March 28, 2020 |

Al Jazeera |

Broadcast TV Programs |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Germany, Berlin

Although Germany has a high amount of coronavirus cases, their death toll is less than comparable countries which can be attributed to widespread testing and a prepared health care system. The hospitals have been able to avoid a "mass influx of patients at the same time," due to a large number of dedicated intensive care units and repurposing military facilities to increase capacity.

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‘We're Doing What We Can': How a Makeshift Network Is Filling in the Gaps with Medical Supplies

Emma Coleman

March 27, 2020 |

Route Fifty |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

To address a shortage of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic, community members have begun to take on the task of producing face masks for medical professionals. From sewing masks to creating face shields with a 3D printer at a local library, communities are organizing and organizations are partnering to, at least temporarily, solve the problem.

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