11/27/20 - smart, useful, science stuff about COVID-19
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SOLUTIONS AND SUCCESSES: 1) I'm highlighting today a few inspirational stories of success in addressing the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. For starters, this 11/19/20 piece at Vox reveals how Vermont has curbed the spread of SARS-CoV-2 — the state has "consistently had one of the lowest infection rates in the continental U.S.,” writes Julia Belluz. Measures include providing motel rooms that allowed homeless shelters to reduce crowding and other efforts to target people at high-risk for getting infected — bus drivers, health care workers, factory workers, people in low-income neighborhoods, and people living in shelters, prisons and retirement homes. More measures taken by Vermont officials include "hazard pay, meal deliveries, and free, pop-up testing in at-risk communities,” the story states. “Instead of just talking about how ‘social distancing is a privilege,’ leaders in the state designed programs and policy to overcome barriers to social distancing,” the story describes a program director at Dartmouth College’s Center for Global Health Equity as saying:
11/27/20 - smart, useful, science stuff about COVID-19
11/27/20 - smart, useful, science stuff about…
11/27/20 - smart, useful, science stuff about COVID-19
SOLUTIONS AND SUCCESSES: 1) I'm highlighting today a few inspirational stories of success in addressing the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. For starters, this 11/19/20 piece at Vox reveals how Vermont has curbed the spread of SARS-CoV-2 — the state has "consistently had one of the lowest infection rates in the continental U.S.,” writes Julia Belluz. Measures include providing motel rooms that allowed homeless shelters to reduce crowding and other efforts to target people at high-risk for getting infected — bus drivers, health care workers, factory workers, people in low-income neighborhoods, and people living in shelters, prisons and retirement homes. More measures taken by Vermont officials include "hazard pay, meal deliveries, and free, pop-up testing in at-risk communities,” the story states. “Instead of just talking about how ‘social distancing is a privilege,’ leaders in the state designed programs and policy to overcome barriers to social distancing,” the story describes a program director at Dartmouth College’s Center for Global Health Equity as saying: