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COVID-19 dining out: Restaurants take to the streets to create socially distanced dining rooms as nation reopens

Jessica Guynn

May 21, 2020 |

USA Today |

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Response Location: United States, Warrenton, Virginia

As the U.S attempts to reopen, restaurant owners from California to Florida are expanding their restaurants into nearby outdoor space, including sidewalks and parking lots. In doing so, they are able to offer patrons a safer dining environment, as there is more room to keep tables further apart and follow social distancing precautions, and it also helps restaurants earn more revenue than if they were limited to indoor space. Some city governments are streamlining the process, including Brookhaven, Georgia, which made it free to access short-term permits for outdoor dining.

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Sweden's Coronavirus Strategy Should Not Be the World's

Josh Michaud

May 20, 2020 |

Foreign Affairs |

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Response Location: Sweden

Others can learn from the so-called Swedish model for managing the pandemic, while at the same time should be wary of adopting its undeclared mission to achieve herd immunity. From the start of the crisis, Sweden has placed the responsibility for risk reduction on individuals and businesses rather than through government mandates. The gamble appears to have paid off, as people for the most part behaved responsibly and cautiously, suggesting a less damaging approach for the long haul. But whatever progress the country has made toward widespread immunity carries a big health cost.

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As Europe comes out of lockdown, what lessons can be learned from Sweden?

Catherine Edwards

May 20, 2020 |

The Local |

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Response Location: Sweden

Sweden’s refusal to enact strict lockdown rules turned out to be far from an unqualified success, but in both its failures and modest benefits it offers lessons on managing through a pandemic while minimizing economic harm. The country’s responses were more nuanced and detailed than a simple hands-off approach. Its economy has not been spared a severe downturn, nor is its death toll anything to brag about. But, in numerous ways, Sweden’s softer approach lives up to its billing as more sustainable than many other countries’.

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Beyond the checkpoints: How a Native American tribe is protecting its people from COVID-19

Bart Pfankuch

May 20, 2020 |

South Dakota News Watch |

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Response Location: Cheyenne River Reservation, United States, Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, South Dakota

While many Native American reservations are dealing with the spread of coronavirus, the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe in South Dakota has managed to prevent the virus from taking hold in their community. Tribal leaders researched successful methods being implemented elsewhere and preemptively executed a plan that included several approaches to contain and prevent the spread of the virus. The plan was put into place prior to President Trump declaring a national emergency and was done without any guidance or assistance from local and state officials despite multiple requests for aid.

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In quarantine at Gallup hotels

Elise Kaplan Theresa Davis

May 17, 2020 |

Albuquerque Journal |

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Response Location: United States, Gallup, New Mexico

In Gallup, New Mexico hotels are being used to house those who have been exposed to COVID-19, but have nowhere to safely quarantine themselves. This effort compliments "an aggressive tracing and testing program," and so far has housed around 120 people. Doctors are also working out of the hotels to provide medical attention to those who may need it.

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Lockdown At Terminal Island Federal Prison Curbs Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

Ryan J. Reilly

May 15, 2020 |

The Huffington Post |

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Response Location: United States, San Pedro, California

By rapidly instituting mandatory testing of all inmates at a covid-19-stricken federal prison and segregating ill inmates, authorities reduced the number of new infections within weeks. At one point, nearly 70% of the inmates at the Terminal Island federal prison in San Pedro, California, had tested positive for the coronavirus as it raced through a facility where inmates normally interact constantly in crowded communal areas. As of mid-May, eight inmates had died and more than 500 had recovered.

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Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reëntry

Atul Gawande

May 13, 2020 |

The New Yorker |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, attention is starting to shift toward reopening and recovery. Looking to healthcare professionals as models for doing so can help. A five-part strategy, tested and implemented at Boston’s Mass General Brigham hospital, has shown promise in its ability to reduce spread amongst hospital workers. It includes: hand-washing, social distancing, mask-wearing, regular health screenings, and cultural shifts toward working better together as communities. Key to this strategy is employing all of the measures in synchronicity.

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How a coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic

Barry Yeoman

May 12, 2020 |

Southerly |

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Response Location: United States, Houma, Louisiana

The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw has long had a culture of cyclicality which is now coming in handy during the Coronavirus pandemic. Because they assume that hardship will come after periods of abundance, tribal members prepare for times of scarcity by making do with less, strategizing new ways to produce food, and regularly checking in with elders to ensure their needs are met. The tribe also lives on the coast of Louisiana, so climate change and environmental degradation remain an issue that they include in their future-planning.

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No COVID outbreak yet in New Hampshire prisons, jails

Rick Jurgens

May 11, 2020 |

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript |

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Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

Through the first week of May 2020, New Hampshire prisons and jails had avoided a COVID-19 outbreak after taking only modest prevention measures. There were no deaths and no reported cases among the more than 2,400 people held in state prisons, nor in any county jails, and only a handful of prison and jail staff had tested positive. Prisons screened employees entering facilities, engaged in extensive cleaning, suspended visits, and limited transfers and programs. Though the prisons followed CDC guidelines on testing, critics say they have not tested enough to track the virus' spread.

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Once the coronavirus 'epicenter,' this American city reversed course

Jason Kravarik Sara Sidner

May 08, 2020 |

CNN |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

When coronavirus first appeared in the United States, Seattle emerged as an epicenter, but just a few months later, the city and state have largely reduced the overall caseload. Local officials say that a unified approach, consisting of a combination of measured governmental action and strategic conversations between leaders and tech giants, was the key to slowing the spread while also gaining buy-in from state residents.

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