User:MssLibrarian/sandbox/COVID-19-Delaware

Timeline of outbreak
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Libraries
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Government response timeline
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Impact
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Access to testing
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Economic and employment hardships
As July 4, 2020, more than 120,000 Delawareans had filed first-time unemployment claims since March 15. Delaware Online database is tracking unemployment claims during the pandemic using data from the state Department of Labor. By mid-August, the number of new claims had risen to 131,709 and the state had paid more than $768 million in unemployment benefits since March.

Several Delaware utility companies and municipalities with service fees developed payment assistance programs for customers facing financial difficulties due to COVID-19. Gov. Carney installed a utilities disconnection and late fee moratorium on March 24, 2020, after he issued a stay-at-home order early in the pandemic.

K-12
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Delaware schools offered a range of remote, in-person, and hybrid instruction for its students in September 2020, with most students learning online. In order to track and report statistics about COIVD-19 in Delaware schools, the News Journal created its own database, using Freedom of Information Act requests, public announcements from schools, and reader notifications. As of November 16, 2020, the News Journal reported that it had confirmed 103 of 291 reported positive cases of COVID-19 for students and staff in schools.

Statewide spikes in COVID-19 cases in early November 2020 coincided with the return of many students to hybrid home and onsite learning in school buildings. Richardson Park and North Star elementray schools, both in the Red Clay School District, closed for the week of Novmeber 9 due quarantining of key staff.

Higher education
Limited numbers of students returned to college campuses in Delaware for the Fall 2020 semester as most institutions planned online instruction. Testing plans for college students were critical because COVID-19 statistics in early October 2020 showed Delawareans in ages 18 to 34 continued to see the highest rate of infection. Delaware State University, the University of Delaware, and Wilmington University had on-campus testing for students, but as of early October, Wesley College did not yet have on-campus testing for its students.

Hospitals
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Long-term care facilities
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Personal protection equipment
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Prisons
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Restaurants
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High school sports
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College sports
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Professional sports
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