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  2020-04-02

  April Fool's!

  A comic strip about Covid-19
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  2020-04-02

  Pensacola Beach Quarantined

  I live in Pensacola, about 10 mins from the beach. I have spent many a day at the beach with my family. The sounds and smells of the beach that are familiar to me are children playing, seagulls flying above, someone playing the radio, waves crashing, people talking and laughing, and the smell of nearby restaurants and suntan oil. It was the first week of April 2020, and I had terrible cabin fever from being quarantined, so I decided to take a drive up the coast. After about an hour of driving, I turned around to head home. That is when I really looked at the beach; I had never seen it so empty, void of all humans. I pulled over and got out, and the sounds were different. There were no laughing children, no songs on the radio, just the thunderous crashing of the waves. There was no suntan oil smell in the air, just the smell and taste of saltwater. It was surreal to experience the beach so barren but more serene than it had ever felt.
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  2020-04-02

  HIST30060: Birthday Zoom!

  HIST30060: This screenshot of my auntie's birthday celebration on zoom would be a familiar scene to many. This is one of the many ways my family had to adjust to "covid normal". Birthdays always involve a big gathering and a way for everyone to catch up; losing this was really disheartening . However, this photo also represents the resilience of my family in still being able to find a way to be together, even if zoom felt like a poor substitute. Zoom was and still is a crucial part of many people's lives in the pandemic, yet can create a barrier for those who find the interface challenging to use. Elderly members of my family often found zoom quite tiring and hard to use, creating a further barrier to connecting in lockdown.
• 2020-04-02

  The Silence of Nature

  I live in a rural area of southeastern Louisiana. When I first moved here the only thing that you could hear at night was the natural sounds that one would think of when being in the country, but as developments started to move into my area the air was polluted with the sound of cars on the distant interstate. The nights become a harmony of grasshoppers and traffic all mixed into a melody that formed a hybrid of urban and rural life. On the night of April 2nd, 2020 I was enjoying a night of looking at the stars through my telescope. It was a mainly clear night when I closed my eyes and began listening realized that I could no longer hear the cars on the interstate. Louisiana was in the mist of the a very high spike in COVID and lockdowns were in effect meaning there were fewer cars on the roads especially at night. I sat and listened for hours as I was able to hear all the sounds that were once masked by the intrusion of development on my rural area. From about April 2nd until early July this quite remanded at night. It was not until Louisiana started to open up more that the sound of the cars returned to my nighttime symphony. When I look back on the early days of the pandemic this is the memory that stands out and how it will be remembered by me. Though a harsh time in the world and for humanity, the sounds of technology and modernization were drowned out by nature for a time and it made the nights a little more peaceful and less stressful with all that was going on in the world.
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  2020-04-02

  False Rumors

  In Alexis Akwagyiram’s Reuters article named “African governments team up with tech giants to fights coronavirus lies”, she details how African countries are partnering with tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp to ensure citizens are up to date with news on the coronavirus and prevent false rumors from spreading through these channels and eventually causing a spike in cases. In the article, Akwagyiram mentions how “false claims that garlic, beetroot, and lemons are an effective alternative to antiretroviral drugs' ' continued to spread in most African countries. However, those claims reached the African community here in the United States. My mom, a Ghanaian woman, trying to find ways to prevent herself from catching the virus, especially since she had to work during the height of the pandemic, found herself believing these said rumors. I remember entering the kitchen every morning to see her making a mixture of garlic, hibiscus herb, and ginger boiling on the stove and pouring them in cups for the family to drink. This daily routine took a toll on her health as she began to experience symptoms such as trouble swallowing, difficulty sleeping, and irritability after eating which her doctor later diagnosed as acid reflux. With my mom already having an underlying disease and being immuno-compromised, she had to start taking new medications to prevent the reflux from affecting her blood pressure. What was supposed to alleviate stress and prevent us from catching the virus, just brought more trouble to my family with us now having to worry about the effect of this new diagnosis on my mom’s well-being.
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  2020-04-02

  Banner Redeploys Corporate Employees To Help Frontline Colleagues

  A blog post from Banner Health about corporate workers going back to a nursing role.
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  2020-04-02

  Banner Health implements PPE policy changes regarding N95 use

  A press release from Banner Health highlighting changes to policy; moves taken to save as many lives as possible; ensure safety of health care workers
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  2020-04-02

  Banner activates triage tents at acute care hospital emergency rooms to manage influx of patients

  A press release announcing that Banner Health is activating triage tents at its acute care hospitals to build capacity for the sickest patients amid the COVID-19 pandemic. These are not COVID-19 specimen collection sites, and they are not for the worried well or those with mild COVID-19 symptoms that can be managed at home.
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  2020-04-02

  Banner Health prepares for influx of patients amid COVID-19 pandemic

  A press release from Banner Health announcing that they are "working diligently and deliberately to make sure we are best prepared to handle an influx of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are monitoring capacity, resources and staffing in real-time, making adjustments to our emergency operations, when needed."
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  2020-04-02

  3D printing community creates face shields as PPE

  As Banner Health ensures it has the necessary supplies to keep its patients and team members safe, Banner Innovation Group is collaborating with community partners to create an array of supplies that meet CDC guidelines and are able to be sourced locally and quickly. Most recently, that innovative partnership brought in the help of the 3D printing community to create face shields.
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  2020-04-02

  College Student in Covid

  I wrote about my story through covid. I am a college student studying Early childhood education. I am also a child care worker. My submission is about what it was like going through college during covid. This is important to me because it's my experience and I know many other college students feel the same way.
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  2020-04-02

  COVID-19 isolation spurs Canadians to read, exercise, call loved ones

  This article provides a report on how Canadians across the provinces spent their time at the start of the pandemic. The report includes how often citizens dined out, ordered food, and what types of entertainment they engaged in under lockdown.
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  2020-04-02

  Pennsylvania COVID-19 Cases Graph

  Graph shows the percent of population in blue, percent of cases in yellow, and percent of hospitalizations in red for cases in Pennsylvania. All the bars from ages 0-24 are quite low in all three categories. However from ages 25-65+ increase in all categories. The percent of hospitalizations rises drastically for ages 50-65+. While their percent of population and percent of cases are low they are the age group more likely to need hospitalization.
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  2020-04-02

  Jewish Melbourne: 'Spirits high in Melbourne for Passover under self isolation'

  newspaper article in the Herald Sun by Brianna Travers, that explains how Jews in Melbourne would be celebrating Pesach under lockdown
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  2020-04-02

  Totem of the Stitches by Natalia A.B.

  I began writing this book at the end of eight grade. I worked on it for two years until just this last April, and self published it completely independently at age 15. This book is about the hardships of a teenager's life, the darkness of existence. It focuses a lot on questioning society, it's structure and the way we function, as well as the darkness of an adolescent's life that we don't all get to see or experience. Publishing this book during quarantine was something I was as initially doubtful about seeing as the situation of our present is severe throughout the entire world. However, this book helped me personally through hard times in my life, and I felt as if publishing this book might help other people feel less alone in a time of fear and sadness. Thus, I published this book amidst the pandemic, and hope to provide a bit more light in a time of darkness.
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  2020-04-02

  In pictures: this is what social distancing looks like around the world

  This image shows the measures that individuals are taking in order to avoid transmission of COVID-19. These individuals are seen standing at least a meter apart during a break in the government issued COVID-19 curfew while waiting in line for supplies, food, etc.
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  2020-04-02

  Screenshot of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch

  Since my friends and I aren’t able to visit each other in face-to-face, we have been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons together online. Pictured are our three avatars hanging out in the game, similar to what we would be doing if we weren’t quarantined.
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  2020-04-02

  Screenshot of Amazon Order for Face Masks

  My mother recently ordered a supply of face masks for our family to wear when we are out in public. The order states that they have already shipped, but tracking the package shows it has not yet left California. Note: These are not N95 face masks, which is the type of medical face mask in short supply right now and needed by those who work in the medical and first responder fields.
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  2020-04-02

  Cultural Insights: Interviews in the Creative Sector #14 … Emily Gartner, ArtThreads Studio

  In response to COVID-19, the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science launched the mini-series, "Cultural Insights: Interviews in the Creative Sector," to highlight colleagues and professionals working in the same or similar field of museum professionals.
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  2020-04-02

  The City That Never Sleeps Until it Did

  One night in April, around 8 P.M, a few friends and I decided to go on a bike ride. We rented Citi Bikes and biked all the way from the East Village up to 5th Avenue, one of the most popular and famous streets in Manhattan. On a typical day, 5th Avenue would be overrun with people shopping, going to restaurants, leaving their office, or exploring the tourist sites in the area. The streets themselves would jammed with traffic as commuters and tourists alike try to get to other parts of the city via car, taxi, or bus. However, once New York City shutdown in March, the bustling city that we knew disappeared. Streets were empty all day, empty enough that I felt comfortable biking on one of the busiest roads of the city. I had never seen a New York like this, and am unlikely to see it like this again in my lifetime. What was once the epicenter of art, food, technology, culture, and tourism was now a desolate ghost town.
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  2020-04-02

  Inside Rikers During the Coronavirus Outbreak

  This video shows one families struggle to get early release for their loved one from Rikers Island jail in New York. His sister poses the ten million dollar question, does someone who committed a crime deserve to die? This is the possibility many inmates face in the time of coronavirus because the only way we currently know to slow the spread of the virus is through distance. Something that cannot be done when you're sleeping twelve inches away from another person.
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  2020-04-02

  This is what it's like to be in prison during coronavirus

  An inmate with a contraband cell phone talks to Vice News about what its like to be in a California prison during the pandemic. He explains they cannot get enough soap, he is less worried about getting the virus from a fellow inmate and more worried about contracting it from one of the corrections staff. While the prison is screening employees, as the interviewee explains covid can be spread by both pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic. individuals.
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  2020-04-02

  Boston's Lawyers for Civil Rights Group File Additional Briefs for Coronavirus ICE Lawsuit

  After filing an initial lawsuit against ICE and the Bristol County Sheriff in March, Boston's Lawyers for Civil Rights group filed more briefs with the latest from medical and public health experts and actual stories of survival in Bristol County. Detention centers and ICE have largely ignored the health and safety protocols being instated by health officials, so as the coronavirus has spread, nothing has slowed the spread in detention centers and prisons.
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  2020-04-02

  "Emergency Declaration Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic"

  "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: Thlopthlocco Tribal Town has declared a State of Emergency for all Businesses and Tribal Operations. In compliance with Presidential declarations and guidance from the Centers for Disease Control due to the Pandemic of the Coronavirus, the governing body of Thlopthlocco Tribal Town shut down operations of all economic enterprises until further notice."
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  2020-04-02

  Flattening the Curve for Incarcerated Populations — Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons

  The spread of coronavirus has highlighted people and places who are most at risk for contracting and spreading the virus and the nation's incarcerated people are high risk for both. The people entering the prison system come from already vulnerable populations and half of the incarcerated population already has at least one chronic illness. This puts them at greater odds of contracting and dying from the disease. This article explains what measures the Federal Bureau of Prisons have taken to limit the spread of the disease and the authors, three doctors, suggest a three prong approach but fall back on the real way to slow the spread is to release people who are not likely to be a public threat. HST580, ASU
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  2020-04-02

  The quarantine days for an international student from China

  The picture shows the Chinese herbal medicine I had for nearly a month when I was quarantined in the US. This picture shows my desperation and helplessness as an international student from China, and what I can do to protect me from being infected by the virus. I believe that international students from China in the US during the Coronavirus crisis suffer most. Since the beginning of the 2020, we worried about the safety and health of our family in China; during the March to April, when virus spread rapidly across the US, we were restricted from going back home; and even if we went back home, we still encountered discrimination and misunderstanding of other Chinese people. In the US, we are also the loneliest and most vulnerable groups—we were all afraid of getting out, so we had quarantine at home by ourselves. To prevent us from being infected, we started to have Chinese herbal medicine (as showed in the photo). I drank the medicine for nearly a month because the medicine was the only things I had to make me feel safe and relieved.
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  2020-04-02

  Crochet Away

  While my friends lamented about how bored they were over text, I was trying to keep myself busy with new hobbies. I didn't want to sit still and stare at a screen all day, and soon enough I was filled with a passion to not become bored. I decided to go back to an old hobby of mine- crocheting. I had an untouched pile of yarn and some crochet needles sitting in my room, collecting dust. With the help of a few YouTube tutorials, I was back on track with the basics and started crocheting new things every day. The rhythm and repeated actions of crocheting were soothing and gave me time to reflect on life. As a result, I ran out of all my yarn and quickly went to buy some more online. Crocheting gave me a temporary purpose and was a good source of entertainment in my isolated life.
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  2020-04-02

  Cancer doesn't press pause during a pandemic

  This article is a timely reminder that while there is a pandemic that has seemingly put our lives on hold, for others, that is not the case. Cancer isn't put on hold during a pandemic. People will continue to be diagnosed with cancer, they will continue to get treatments despite the risks of COVID-19 and sadly, people will pass away from cancer. This article is a really moving piece that highlights the experience of COVID-19 from the perspective of someone living with terminal cancer and the likelihood that they may not see the other side of isolation.
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  2020-04-02

  The Ethnocid Effect of COVID-19 on the Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala

  “In Guatemala, the first infected with Covid 19 was revealed on March 13. Until recently March 26, the government had only carried out 564 tests for the virus and the situation was: 25 infected, and of them, one deceased and 5 cured. The government says that it has already contained the virus, epidemiologists say no and that perhaps the worst may be yet to come…”
• 2020-04-02

  Play School COVID-19 Special

  HUM402 Play School has been the leading early childhood education television program for over 50 years in Australia. This special episode, available via Facebook, communicates the changes happening due to COVID-19. It empathises with the children about not being able to see friends, but gives them ways to help stop the virus like washing their hands.
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  2020-04-02

  Article re: blue shop towels for masks - Scituate, MA

  Business Insider article describing discovery that blue shop towels provide significantly better filtering as liners inside masks
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  2020-04-02

  Online School In a Picture

  This was my first day of online classes, and I had a rough start. #cshsecon
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  04/02/2020

  Naval Hospital Ship seen in New York in front of the statue of Liberty.

  this picture shows how serious this virus is. a naval ship was seen in New York while trying to help comfort the victims of Covid-19.
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  2020-04-02

  ASU cancels May commencement due to coronavirus, joining NAU, UArizona

  #cshsecon
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  2020-04-02

  Living Through a Pandemic

  It never occurred to me that a virus starting in Wuhan, China could create a significant impact in other countries far away. Nevertheless, here I am sitting in isolation, or as our government calls it "social distancing." Myself, and all the other college students have had to convert to online learning. Which has not been that bad, but there are some times where I have missed a class or two to gain more snooze time. Online school has made me realize how much I miss being in the physical classroom. The aspect of repetition every week kept my mental health stable. I as well as many others have also had to deal with heading back home to our parents. Just as I caught a glimpse of independence, I'm back under my mother's rule of "my house my rules." My mom works for DCFS (child protective services) and is considered an essential worker. She as well as many other essential workers are commonly face to face with the virus on the daily. Specifically, my mom has to evaluate houses in Aurora and Elgin, Illinois, where the virus is hitting Kane County the hardest. It's scary to know that someone in my family can be easily exposed to the virus. But I understand that she has to do her job and keep children safe, especially during a pandemic where she has told me, "people become crazier when they're stuck in their houses." In the first month of being back home, many arguments were had with my 22-year-old brother and mom, so I decided to move to my dad's house and have been here ever since. Many other families have experienced the same problems with communication and alone time as it is hard when you're stuck with one another for 24/7.
• 04/02/20

  COVID-19 Dreams: What We're Missing Now

  Short essay celebrating creativity during the pandemic
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  2020-04-02

  Play School COVID-19 Special

  Play School has been the leading early childhood education television program for over 50 years in Australia. This special episode communicates the changes happening, empathises with the children as well as telling them what they can do to help.
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  2020-04-02

  Alternative “Animal Crossing” Wedding during the time of COVID-19

  Due to the forced cancellation of their wedding, one couple decided to use the new "Animal Crossing" game to hold a virtual ceremony instead.
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  2020-04-02

  The Positive Side to COVID-19

  Reaching out to social media to find the positive side of the pandemic.
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  2020-04-02

  My blog/diary: 04/02/2020

  My name is Egor and i write my thoughts and emotions in my blog https://starcatcherrus.tumblr.com every day for more than 6 years. And i want to share some of posts about life in self-isolation. And also i'm working in a city hospital as a radiologist.
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  2020-04-02

  "The Hermit Herald" vol.1 Issue 7

  Dramatic increases in CV; Book selections; Floridiots.
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  2020-04-02

  COVID 19 Journal: 04/02/2020

  COVID 19 Journal by Kaitlin Whalen written 04/02/2020.
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  2020-04-02

  Testing Times

  The imagine shows many people reaching for Covid-19 testing kits while money is flying in the air. The people in suits are the hands closest to the kits, then doctors, then minorities are the furthest away.
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  2020-04-02

  The Apocalypse as an ‘Unveiling’: What Religion Teaches Us About the End Times

  This article discusses the different religious viewpoints in relation to how the epidemic and apocalypse can affect the livelihood of each religion and its following and how they continue to practice in such trying times.
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  2020-04-02

  Grocery industry faces challenges amid shopping surge

  The Suffolk Journal, Suffolk University's student run newspaper, reports on life during the pandemic.
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  2020-04-02

  Six students, two employees at Suffolk test positive for COVID-19

  The Suffolk Journal, Suffolk University's student run newspaper, reports on Suffolk's own COVID-19 cases.
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  2020-04-02

  Here's a look at what states are exempting religious gatherings from stay at home orders

  This article is about twelve states which have allowed public religious gatherings during the current COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. The twelve states listed to the left have deemed religious gatherings essential and have created adaptations to maintain distance between members. These gathers are highly criticized and have been sourced as the cause of several outbreaks across the country, including in Sacramento, California.
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  2020-04-02

  Watching a movie together

  This is me and my friends watching a movie together via special website. Though we weren’t together physically, we still were there for each other and had fun. *Me
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  2020-04-02

  A coffee-shop is using walkie-talkie

  Due quarantine restrictions all the cafes have to be closed, only delivery and take away are allowed. This cafe is using a walkie-talkie to avoid unnecessary contact.
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  2020-04-02

  South Phoenix church still hosting in-person services despite widespread call to stay home

  The article describes one church community's response to COVID-19 and Gov. Ducey's proclamation to practice social distancing except in "essential activities." A spokesperson from the church community stated that they are not practicing social distancing and would continue to meet.