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  2020-03-20

  Residents of Rocinha favela show their thanks to health teams working to prevent the spread of COVID-19

  This film shows residents of the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro celebrating health workers by clapping, cheering, and flashing the lights of their homes. The captions reads: "Residents of Rocinha applaud and flash their lights in gratitude to the whole medical team that is dedicated to the prevention of the coronavirus. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL!!! Film by a resident." The entry is tagged with #COVIDnasFavelas, a hashtag documenting the efforts of local residents to provide food and care in the absence of federal, state, and local resources and leadership. As the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro continues to deny the severity of the pandemic, the most marginalized communities are crowd-sourcing food to help those forced to stay home. Most workers and families have few or no savings to draw on. "Moradores da Rocinha aplaudiram e piscaram as luzes em agradecimento a toda equipe médica que está dedicada na prevenção do coronavírus. FOI LINDO!!! Vídeo de morador #COVID19NasFavelas" https://twitter.com/jornalfalaroca/status/1241194834364444673?s=20 #COVIDnasFavelas #NJIThist380
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  2020-03-28

  COVID-19 Archive Alternative Final Assignment, History of Public Health, NJIT

  This is an alternate final assignment created for the course HIST 380: History of Public Health, an upper level history course at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Given the challenges of transitioning to online-only instruction, the upheaval of the pandemic, and the reframing of the course to address historical precedents of COVID-19 more explicitly, students were given the option of creating content for this archive.