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  2020-04-10

  Bring The Noise

  Bringing music into the home to ease the pandemic woes.
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  2022-07-24

  Fear for My Mother's Saefty

  I've written a short story centered around my experience with fear of this virus, particularly focusing on how my fear is heighten with an immuno-compromised mother. I wrote about how the media the people around me consumed affected their behavior and played a role within my fear and the impact it had on my mother. This story says two things about this pandemic I think: it shows the impact that information had/has on how people approach the virus and the emotional toll the pandemic had on people living their daily lives. What I've submitted is important because it validates what Americans have experienced. Many Americans
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  2021-10-08

  EMS and Covid

  EMS is facing unprecedented challenges in the age of Covid. Response times are up due to the extra 911 call volumes, not to mention first responder burnout contributing to staffing issues. How has EMS been affected in your area?
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  2020-04-30

  Minions!

  A family in San Ramon made a cutout of two minions wearing masks and put it in front of their home. The sign says "THANK YOU ❤️ HEALTHCARE WORKERS ❤️ FIRST RESPONDERS ❤️ ESSENTIAL WORKERS WE ❤️ U". The photo was taken on April 30, 2020.
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  2021-04-23

  Covid as a first responder

  How the pandemic effected me personally at home and at work
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  2021-04-07

  First Responder Monument NYC

  Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the controversial governor of New York, announced earlier this month that they plan to build a monument to first responders in New York City. First responders were among the group of people that were on the front lines of the pandemic response. This monument will be designed to honor the efforts and sacrifices by New York's first responders. In the coming months and years, I think we will see many other states do a similar thing for their first responders and healthcare workers.
• 2021-01-17

  Homesick Holidays

  This past Thanksgiving, I was unable to return home for the holidays. Despite being a busy university student, usually I take the Flix bus from Tempe, AZ to Tucson, AZ so that I can spend the short break with my family before returning to school for finals. However, despite all the precautions that I and my roommates had taken, my father still recommended that I stay at my apartment, seeing that he is a first responder and goes outside almost every day. That, combined with a recent COVID-19 scare on my end meant that for Thanksgiving, I decided that it was my first holidays spent alone.
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  2020-07-23

  Snap Judgment podcast episode on covid-19 in San Quentin state prison (CA)

  Podcast episode produced by Snap Judgment in which they look at covid-19 outbreaks in San Quentin prison
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  1918-11-26

  Spanish Flu Files

  For a class assignment, I had to look through historical newspapers that discuss the Spanish Flu and connect it to the current COVID-19 pandemic.
• 2015-04-13

  What If We Had Been Better Prepared?

  This story is important to me because I was raised to always be as well prepared as possible. In this video Bill Gates talks about options the worlds governments can take to help prevent and/or aid in global pandemics. The ideas he presents range in intensity, from increasing the amount of first responders to staging pseudo-war games for attacking the outbreaks most efficiently. The first time I remember a large scale disaster that could have been prevented, saved lives, time and money was the BP oil spill in the gulf of Mexico. The cost of the spill range from about 60 billion, reported by British Petroleum, to an estimated 140 billion. The spill and loss of lives, both human and oceanic, could have been prevented by the company implementing and following global operating policies for deep-water oil drilling.
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  2020-04-20

  Bringing SMILES to the VA or Mpls and the Waters of Plymouth Senior Living

  My sister is an RN for the VA and contacted me in April, when there was a shortage of Masks. She asked if I could bring some smiles to the patients so that is how I got started. I have made or 100 different character masks for the VA and for my Mothers Senior Independent Living Apartments since their lockdown. They couldn't wait for the arrival of the next drop off to see what I had created next. I've had fun wearing them in stores as I shop, bring SMILES to fellow shoppers and FIRST RESPONDERS who too need that SMILE everyday. I also invented a little something that keeps the mask from SUCKING into their mouth when they speak. Every version got better and better as I kept creating. It brought a lot of enjoyment to me.
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  2020-05-05

  Coping Strategies for LEOs and First Responders

  First Responders, by nature of the job, daily charged with helping people through their worst moments and traumatic events. Some might say that first responders should be able to handle it, after all, they signed up for the job. But first responders, just like the rest of us, are human. No one can ever really be prepared to handle stress like that on a day after day after day after day basis. In order to help out first responders, the CDC created this website with information on how to deal with the usual stress of the job plus the new issues and problems that 2020 has decided to throw at us. I thought it important to include here, not just for posterity, but the more places this information is posted, the more available and easily accessible it is for someone who may need it, but not know where to look.
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  2020-05-05

  Through Chinese Social Media -- 5

  I’m a study-abroad student. Due to the virus, I had to stay at my home in New York. I got the update of the virus through Chinese social media, and I think it is really interesting. I’m going to share some posts from Chinese social media about the virus. The post is about that one of the temporary hospitals is going to close, which means the hope is coming. Through the post, I feel the persistence of those front line fighters. There are plenty of touching stories in the post. One of them brings his daughter's doll to the front line. They are also others' wives, husbands, mothers, children. These medical staff came to the frontline at the risk of infection, and their families were also worried, proud, and worried about them from afar.
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  05/04/2020

  Lahey Coming Together

  On May 4th, 2020, a convoy of first-responders and the Boston Bruins came to Lahey Hospital and Medical Center to celebrate and thank the staff. This image was taken of one of my mothers' coworkers and family friend. Image of Lahey Hospital and Medical Center staff in Burlington, MA
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  2020-04-16

  Sign Honoring First Responders

  A sign at St Francis Hermitage in is illuminated blue in a show of support to First Responders. The Hermitage normally has a restaurant which has been closed as a result of COVID-19.
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  2000-05-02

  Interim Guidance for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems and 911 Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) for COVID-19 in the United States

  The article describes what first respondents should do in the case of an infected case. This article personally communicates to me that if I would get symptoms of COVID-19, I would know who to go to for help. #HIST15H
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  2020-03-29

  poster at intersection of a medical professional with American Flag for a mask

  Someone has place posters of this image at the major intersections in downtown Tallahassee - this one was taken at the corner of Monroe and Tennessee streets. I think it is trying to honor medical staff as first responders