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This video uses characters from the movie “Despicable Me” who let their love and kindness show and show ways to keep themselves and their communities safe during this unprecedented time.
Source: Animated Video about COVID-19 and Kindness
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Unite Healthy Families: COVID-19 is a collection of free digital guides designed to support families with limited English proficiency. The guides feature:
Source: Unite Healthy Families: COVID-19
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Playbook for Pandemic Response, an initiative led by Final Mile, is a real time documentation of strategies and solutions impacting behavioral outcomes critical to pandemic response that can immediately be used by a variety of stakeholders.
This particular playbook addresses behavioral challenges with respect to physical (not social) distancing.
Source: Playbook for Physical Distancing
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Playbook for Pandemic Response, an initiative led by Final Mile, is a real time documentation of strategies and solutions impacting behavioral outcomes critical to pandemic response that can immediately be used by a variety of stakeholders. This particular playbook addresses mask usage.
Source: Playbook for Mask Use
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As many of us are getting back to our offices, we continue to be careful and need to take precautions.
New Concept and NCCDC have designed a simple poster on DOs and DON’Ts Precautions against COVID-19 in English and Hindi.
Source: Poster on DOs and DON’Ts Precautions against COVID-19 in Offices
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This is a free, publicly available course entitled Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Johns Hopkins University Experts. This course is set up as a series of short modules to explore the COVID-19 pandemic. Registration is not required. The modules build on each other. The course begins with a discussion of the virus that causes COVID-19 and works its way to the pandemic’s broader implications for society.
This course features original content that was created after the imposition of social distancing measures.
Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
Source: Understanding the COVID-19 Pandemic Insights from Johns Hopkins University Experts
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Because of COVID-19’s strict physical distancing measures, people are heavily reliant on maintaining connectivity using global digital social networks, such as Facebook or Twitter, to facilitate human interaction and information sharing about the virus.
In this article, the authors discuss some ways in which social media has undermined effective responses to COVID-19. They consider how various groups could respond to these challenges—especially government leaders, social media companies, and healthcare providers. Ultimately, these actors each have roles to play in preventing social media from being weaponised to sow distrust and further endanger public health, while also ensuring that social media can fulfill its essential civic function of facilitating good faith political expression and discourse.
Source: Building Trust while Influencing Online COVID-19 Content in the Social Media World
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This site includes all of the CDC’s recommendations for re-opening of schools and how to handle in-school situations.
Source: Considerations for Schools
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The physical distancing being practiced by millions all over the world has had an interesting side effect – many people who were taking PrEP (pre-exposure prophylactics) to avoid contracting HIV have stopped taking their daily doses since they do not plan to have sexual contact for the foreseeable future.
This article reviews some recent studies about this trend and how the sexually active gay and heterosexual communities are responding to COVID-19.
Source: People Are Going off PrEP in the COVID-19 Era Because They’re Not Having Sex
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These guidelines aim to inform the decision-making process regarding school reopening, support national preparations and guide the implementation process, as part of overall public health and education planning processes. It is designed to be a flexible tool that can be adapted to each context and updated as the situation changes. The guidelines outline six key priorities to assess the readiness of those schools and inform planning.
Source: Framework for Reopening Schools
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