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How Stears reinvented election coverage in Nigeria with a new data product

How Stears reinvented election coverage in Nigeria with a new data product

In many countries, elections tend to be well produced, extensively covered media events, with audiences tuning in for real-time updates and sophisticated visualisations that show the latest results and estimates. “In Nigeria, this is not the case,” says Yvette Dimiri, Head of Subscriptions Growth at Stears Business. “When it’s election night in Nigeria, you’re typically gathered around the…

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How Stears reinvented election coverage in Nigeria with a new data product

How Stears reinvented election coverage in Nigeria with a new data product

In many countries, elections tend to be well produced, extensively covered media events, with audiences tuning in for real-time updates and sophisticated visualisations that show the latest results and estimates. “In Nigeria, this is not the case,” says Yvette Dimiri, Head of Subscriptions Growth at Stears Business. “When it’s election night in Nigeria, you’re typically gathered around the…

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Masterlist MLQC

This list will be edited over and over again :D

Especially my Gavin manifesto is regularly updated in the light of new data.

Asks, requests and collabs are open, you can freely ask anything from the MLQC universe. I don't mind NSFW material, although please keep it legal ;)

My main LI is Gavin, therefore I might not be the right person for asks regarding other LIs. If you still want to, then you can surely go ahead. I will still try my best to dig out the most accurate answer I can and maybe learn myself a thing or two during the process ^_^

Prefer comments over likes. I LOVE TO READ ABOUT OTHER'S opinions! 💕 All the better if these are the opinions of fellow Gavin-stans! 🎐🎐🎐

INTERACTION RULES:

Be respectful.

Be respectful!!

Please keep your comments short and simple. You can use your own blog for your essays ^_^

Please don't try to sell me your LI. It creates the opposite effect.

This blog compares, criticizes and ranks LIs and events. If you're sensitive towards this kind of material stear clear.

Beware that me blocking you means all your comments under my posts will be deleted by Tumblr... So no one will be able to see them. Please think twice before breaking my rules 😉

Be respectful!!! (third time's a charm 😉)

Though I won't be playing the game on a regular basis soon due to the inconvenient series of fiasco occurred in the span of last couple of months (it just damaged the joy of playing this game) I will still check the dates, main story and the events.

Coming up...

- Top 10 Lucien Moments (for his birthday)

- Gavin x MC S1 storyline Part 5

- Kiro's lore analysis (yes, I will be finishing it!)

Analysis on Dates

Our getaways with Gavin... Discovering new places, savoring delicious food at different restaurants, soaring through the sky, enjoying the intimate moments with our Jupiter and what other dreams may come.

Analysis on the Main Story

This is where I store my heavy artillery and everything that's Canon in the main story.

An extremely detailed story summary of Gavin and MC can be found under this section.

My Gavin manifesto that includes all of the reasons why MC favors Gavin romantically in S1 is also here.

You can find the character analyses on other LIs too. Heavy artillery... Yep ^_^

Anime

Koi to Producer was where I first saw Gavin and fell in love with him at first sight. But it's also how I got introduced to MLQC and thus otome games.

In case you didn't know, the anime favors Gavin big time and harbors many beautiful moments and you can find my picks in this corner.

Headcanons

Heart wants what it wants and sometimes PG takes another route than what my heart would desire. In those cases I put my thoughts in motion and this is where you can find the ideal MLQC universe that lays in my heart.

Collections

You might find some series here or an ensemble of various things with commonalities. Sometimes I rank stuff and put them here.

Miscellaneous

Small moments when a lightbulb flashes in my mind and it becomes a post.

These are usually tiny bits.

Asks

My personal favorite part on this blog, when you guys contact me directly and I can see what are the things that spark your interest and bring you here. ^_^

Twitch Sessions with Joe

Those were the days huh? Joe Zieja was the first ENG VA for Gavin and did a fantastic job.

He interacted with us producers on his Twitch sessions where lots of interesting moments took place. You can hop on this memory train here and try not to cry 😭😅

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Gravity, Ghosts, and Gems

Part 3/???

The New Kids

Part 3

Steven could see his answer did little to reassure or calm his trembling roommate. “Hey, I’m still me. A-And I’m not going to hurt you! I just..... Let’s just talk.”

“So, how did you get white hair and a cool jumpsuit?” Steven tried to talk to Danny more casually, as he could see his panic from their shared dream had not gone away.

“Well, to understand you would first have to know my parents are ghost hunters. Or ghost scientists they never really make it clear.”

“Wait, like spooky horror movie dead people ghosts?”

“Yeah.”

“Wait ghosts are real?!”

“Yes” Danny’s voice was growing more annoyed.

“I’ve gotta tell Sadie” Steven whispered to himself, stars in his eyes.

“What?”

“Uhhhh nothing. Continue.”

“So yeah my parents study ghosts. And for years they’d been working on a portal to the ghost world. They wanted to prove to everyone that they weren’t crazy, and they also just wanted to learn everything about ghosts.” Danny became less tense as he told his story. He’s had to keep it a secret for so long that now telling anyone felt like a major relief. “So after like years they finally got it into working order. Except it didn’t turn on. No matter what they tried it just wouldn’t go. They were really bummed and got discouraged for a while, but me and my friends still wanted to check it out.”

Steven listened intently as Danny told him about the accident. Sam, Tucker, the jumpsuit, the flash. Everything just sounded so painful. Part of Steven just wanted to reach out and hug Danny, but Steven restrained himself because he knew they weren’t there yet. After all Danny probably still though Steven was a big scary pink lady. So Steven just kept listening as Danny told him everything. About Vlad. About his parents hunting him. About Danielle. About his older self. By the time Danny had gotten to him revealing himself to his folks, Steven was ready to cry. Steven could never imagine how much pain Danny had gone through. And yet he could see it vividly. He could see it in his own life story, stretched out over years and galaxies, and only now being properly dealt with between him and his therapist.

“So yeah, I’m half ghost and I protect the world. Well mostly my town but you get the point. And nobody knows but my family and friends. And I guess you, now. So what’s your story. Did your parents make a portal that fused you with some pink lady?” Danny had said that jokingly, but Steven’s emotions were still weird, both from hearing Danny’s story and now having to tell his own.

“Well, I’m half gem, so I’m kinda like you, but my gem powers didn’t come from an accident. You see, my mom was a gem who...”

“Wait, wait, wait. What are gems? I know you have that thing on your stomach but like, what does it do?”

“Ok so now I have to go way back. Gems are an alien species whose physical forms are just projections from their gemstone. All gems have one, and they can all do different things. Some gems also come together to make...”

“Wait back up. You’re saying you’re..... an alien?”

“Well technically half alien on my mom’s side. But I’ve spent my whole life here on earth.”

“So aliens actually exist?” Danny could barley process what he was hearing. Every NASA scientist he had looked up to was wrong. All of their data and calculations were disproven by the mere existence of this kid standing infront of him. Could he be the first junior astronaut to make contact with alien life?

Danny could tell that Steven was waiting for him to stop being confused. His look said it all. So Danny put back on the chill persona he had had before and let Steven continue. He was gripped by the rich tapestry Steven had woven with his words. A rebellious princess(that’s who the big pink lady was), a secret taken to the grave, a war for the fate of the planet, a tale of love found and love lost. All to produce the spunky little kid who was Steven Universe. He told Danny about his similar face offs with villians of his own kind. About the new family he found along the way and how he saved two planets with love. Steven told Danny a bit about his breakdown following Homeworld’s reconstruction, but left it very vague. He mentioned that he hurt Jasper and that he reached his breaking point and blew up in front of his family. But he just left it at that. At least for now, Danny didn’t need to know about the monster that terrorized Beach City. At least for now, Danny could see him as kind of normal.

“So that’s basically it. And then I wanted to experience life outside of gem stuff. So I got in my car and started exploring and being more human. And then I found this job offer online and though it would be a good experience for me, and so here we are.”

“That’s wild.” Danny said, reacting to Steven’s life story. “And that’s kinda what happened to me to. I wanted to get away from ghosts and stuff for a bit. I found this job offer and my parents assured me that they could take care of any ghost business in town, so I packed some stuff and flew here last night.”

“That explains why you were so tired today!”

“Yeah. Even at 112 mph, Illinois to Oregon is a long trip. And I was carrying a bunch of my stuff and had to avoid any major city areas.”

They both laughed, their defenses completely down, as they recognized a trust between them that hadn’t been there before. Neither of them had got entirely comfortable when Steven remembered another thing he had noticed earlier.

“Did you see the room of that Dipper kid who lives here? His walls were covered with conspiracy and supernatural related stuff.”

“Yeah. I was able to recognize part of my parents in that kid.” At that thought Danny came to a realization. “Which means we probably shouldn’t tell him about any of this.”

“Yeah.” Steven agreed. “He’s either gonna want to ask us a million questions...”

“Or strap us down to a table and rip us apart molecule by molecule.” The tone of the room got considerably darker, as Danny realized what ‘being like his parents’ actually meant. They both sat silently for a few moments, neither knowing how to respond. Finally, Steven spoke.

“So no one finds about about us? At least until we know we can trust them. Like be 100% certain that they’re gonna be cool with us” Steven was trying to stear the conversation into a more hopeful direction, and it kinda worked.

“Yeah” Danny answered, lifting is head, a slightl smile now returning to his face. “Besides, is not like there’s evil ghost or aliens running around here. In Gravity Falls. So we should have no problem keeping our powers on the down low.”

“Yeah” Steven laughed. “Everything seems normal here. What do we have to worry about?” With that, both decided to finally go to sleep, secure in the knowledge that nothing weird happens in Gravity Falls.

Right?

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2023 Election: Will polls translate to Peter Obi’s victory

Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi is going into the February 25 election as a frontrunner doing good numbers in polls, months after his ambition was dismissed by those who now see him as a threat. Obi emerged as the LP flagbearer on May 30, 2022, days after resigning his membership in the Peoples Democratic Party. In the 2019 election, he was the running mate of Atiku Abubakar, who, again, won PDP’s 2023 presidential ticket at the Abuja special convention. In a speech after defecting, the former Anambra governor decried how those who should take care of people’s welfare were spending dollars on delegates, turning Nigeria into a laughing stock. The popularity of the 61-year-old ex-bank chief surged after he joined forces with the LP and a section of the youth demographic took his ambition as a personal project, campaigning on and off social media. Replying to mockers who said the LP has no “structure” (offices and members in 774 local government areas), Obi’s followers―known as Obidients―usually describe themselves as the structure that would mobilize the grassroots. Obi, known for his “from consumption to production” advocacy, promises to fight corruption and insecurity, create jobs and a conducive environment for businesses, and improve education, healthcare, infrastructure and the economy. The candidate has received endorsements from prominent individuals including former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Benue Governor Samuel Ortom, Yoruba leader Pa Ayo Adebanjo, Ijaw leader Edwin Clark and Prof Pat Utomi among others. Obi, whose campaign is led by Obasanjo’s associate Akin Osuntokun, also has the support of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum (SMBLF), comprising Afenifere, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF). DAILY POST findings show that most of the polls so far put Obi ahead of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP. Nextier SPD poll released on February 5 indicated that Obi leads (37%) ahead of Atiku (27%) and Tinubu (24%). On February 7, Lagos-based data company Stears announced Obi would win with 41% of the votes, ahead of Tinubu (31%) and Atiku (20%) “as long as Nigerians follow through on their stated intent to vote.” “Obi gets 41% of the vote holding a lead over Tinubu, based on the model’s predictions. In a low voter turnout scenario, Tinubu edges the vote,” the researchers asserted. Similarly, a poll by Bloomberg on February 10, declared Obi the preferred choice of the majority of 2,384 (66%) respondents scoring, declaring their support for him while 18% support Tinubu and 10% want Atiku.The San-Francisco based data company used a stratified sampling based on age, gender, and location across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones to ensure national representation. The results showed Obi has higher numbers among male and female citizens, particularly ages 18-24 and 25-34. Earlier, the result of the We2Geda Foundation poll on September 17, 2022, showed Obi ahead of other contenders with 51% of the votes, former Vice President Atiku had 25% and ex-Governor Tinubu with 19%. In September and December 2022, ANAP Foundation/NOI Polls said 23% of voters are rooting for Obi, 13% for Tinubu and 10% for Atiku. In the third ANAP poll released on February 15, Obi was ahead with 21% of voters, followed at a distance by Tinubu with 13%, while Atiku and Kwankwaso had 10% and 3% respectively. Not surprisingly, the opposition rejected the figures, accusing the pollsters of bias. They maintain the polls were designed to make Obi look highly rated even outside his geopolitical zone. In response to Nextier, the Media Director of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga chastised the public policy advisory firm for turning itself “into a Nigerian Gallup Poll or Ipsos.” He said it is ludicrous that the study projected a clean sweep of the South-East region at over 90% of registered voters and also put Obi ahead of Tinubu in the six South-West states, including Lagos. “Assuming without absolutely conceding that Obi will enjoy home advantage, we then wonder why the pollsters thought the factors that will propel landslide victory for Obi in South-East will not work for the APC candidate in his own South-West base,” Onanuga said. Speaking to Channels TV, Kwankwaso, a former Kano governor dismissed a poll which predicted he would get only 6% of total results in the North-West, boasting that the NNPP has “locked northern Nigeria.” Said he: “Even a madman knows that I’m over and above six per cent or even 60 per cent. We have seen the in-house figures of PDP and APC and they dare not bring them out. Do you see any poll from northern Nigeria?” He added: “Those polls come from the south and the media that is propagating that fake information is mainly from that part of the country. Polls are on the telephone. Over 90 per cent of my supporters don’t know Twitter or social media. Go to markets in Kano, Rivers, Wuse (Abuja), Sabo (Ibadan).” Valentine Ozigbo, Obi’s Special Adviser on Technology and Strategic Alliances, in a statement to DAILY POST, said the results of the polls mirror the campaign’s internal polling, calling them “a natural outcome” of an inspiring candidacy. According to him: “Peter Obi is the only candidate taking his message to the hurting masses. Peter Obi goes where even government officials fear going, like Southern Kaduna, Biu, relief camps in Benue, Abuja, and other places where Nigerians live on the margins of society.” He further noted: “It is only natural that after decades of uninspired leadership, Nigerians would embrace a candidate who comes with a fresh message, who has the character to deliver on his promise and the track record to back up his claims.” More than 93 million citizens are expected to vote at 176,846 polling units in 774 LGAs, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. From someone who seemingly had no future in the 2023 presidential election hours after the PDP primary in 2022, Obi, in six months, has become the candidate to beat. Now, Nigerians are contemplating that he might finish Saturday’s race as the proverbial dark horse. Read the full article

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

While studying at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford, a group of graduates noticed how difficult it was to get data and information on Africa’s largest economy and their home country, Nigeria. Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti, an economist; Bode Ogunlana, a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim, a data scientist; and Preston Ideh, a corporate lawyer — and in 2017, they launched a media startup to address the dearth of information and data-driven insights in the West African country. 

Five years on, this startup, Stears, is announcing a $3.3 million seed round led by MaC Venture Capital. Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. This news is coming two years after Stears raised $650,000 in pre-seed funding. Last month, it was one of the 60 startups to get accepted into the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund 2022 cohort, which included some non-dilutive funding.

Stears started as a media publication focused on financial news and insights in Nigeria. Its flagship subscription insights product, Stears Premium, contains content ranging from news and opinion pieces to investigative pieces and deep dives, educating the general public on issues around business and finance, economy, government and policy in Nigeria. The $100-a-year product witnessed significant usage among consumers, particularly employees working in various finance-related institutions across the country. And because these institutions have more spending power, Stears subsequently tailored the product to businesses who wanted to subscribe on behalf of their teams. Some of its subscribers include financial institutions like Sterling Bank, and fintechs like Sparkle, PiggyVest and Paystack. The company says its userbase has grown mainly organically at around 6.5% month-on-month, doubling its total number of users over the last year. 

“We have a strong understanding of the kind of information people need. So our focus is on standardizing information dissemination and building with the customer in mind,” Ideh told TechCrunch in an interview. “An essential part of our business model is pushing out high-value subscription data products, for instance, proprietary forecast models. Conversely, the low-value end will be news, so customers’ willingness to spend changes as they go along the spectrum.” 

The iteration of Stears Premium, alongside the introduction of other products Stears Pro and Stears Advisory, has seen Stears morph into a data and intelligence company. Macro trends and topics like GDP and inflation drive content on Stears Premium. Stears Pro, on the other hand, provides more bespoke content around specific issues such as market entry, country analysis and digital economy for international organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and the knowledge workers—people need a great deal of data for their work, which may include roles such as analysts, portfolio managers, researchers and economists—that work in them. 

But in a bid to support its transition from an insights company to a data company and buoyed by this new investment, Stears is planning a strategy modification for the Pro product. According to the company’s COO and data scientist Abdulrahim, the data outfit is working with international development institutions and financial institutions to produce proprietary and exclusive datasets that don’t exist anywhere else. Therefore, instead of reporting insights from the data it sources, Stears wants to collate data, engage in deep data analytics and present it to its business customers in various formats. 

“An essential part of our business model is pushing out high-value subscription data products. And as we advance, we’ll do less custom work for this set of customers and focus more on overall data around the same sector,” added Ideh, on the direction Stears is taking with its Pro product. “So the difference in output is such that in the past, we put out reports, but in the future, we’re probably going to put out data feeds. So less text-heavy way of publishing and more of forecast and prediction around sectors that matter to knowledge workers and their organizations.”

Stears Advisory — the product where Stears wears its consultancy hat and takes on third-party projects around its core coverage — is taking a rear seat as the company intends to double down on Pro and Premium. CEO Ideh explained that while the Advisory product, which he likens to a research and development (R&D) arm sponsored by different partners, allows Stears to experiment with data collection and analysis and provides the bedrock to carve out further insights, it’s not scalable and lacks the sort of recurring revenue that venture-backed businesses need.  

So far, the company’s strategy seems to be paying off. Enterprise customers now contribute over 75% of revenues generated, up from 45% in 2021. It also expects revenues to double from last year as half-year revenues for 2022 have already surpassed full-year revenues for 2021. This is compared to the 80% revenue growth between FY 2021 and FY 2020.

As a data and intelligence company, Stears finds itself in a sweet spot where it is incentivized to pursue political projects that would draw attention if it were a media or tech company. In 2019, the company embarked on one such project as it developed Nigeria’s first real-time election database. Over 2 million Nigerians used it to monitor the general elections. Ideh said his company intends to relaunch the election data site, this time with more datasets and functionalities, in anticipation of Nigeria’s 2023 elections.

“Bloomberg, at its core, is a data company; we love how they approach elections and our approach in 2019 was driven by them,” said Ideh, who has always been vocal about Stears building the Bloomberg of Africa. “This is a big open data effort for us and we are also excited about polling because it is a very important form of data verification currently missing in Nigeria. And so over the election period, we will run and push out statistically representative polls on Nigeria, using strong data mindsets, to get a sense of public opinion issues and achieve more robust results.”

According to Ideh, the seed investment will take Stears from a v2.0, a Nigerian insight company, to a v3.0, a data company focused on Africa. The company plans to use the investment to enhance its data collection and analytics capabilities, hire data scientists, data analysts and sector analysts, and expand to east Africa through Kenya, southern Africa through the eponymous country and north Africa through Egypt. 

“Africa is home to the first humans and is now the next frontier for business,” said Marlon Nichols, co-founder and managing general partner at lead investor MaC Venture Capital on the investment. “Many multinational corporations and governments understand this to be a reality. They also appreciate that several African countries are subject to unique business processes and are primarily cash-based economies, which results in understated GDP, among other things. Stears is uniquely positioned to provide the proprietary and accurate data needed to unlock trade and deeper business relationships with African countries and companies.”

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

While studying at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford, a group of graduates noticed how difficult it was to get data and information on Africa’s largest economy and their home country, Nigeria. Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti, an economist; Bode Ogunlana, a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim, a data scientist; and Preston Ideh, a corporate…

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures • TechCrunch

Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures • TechCrunch

While studying at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxforda group of graduates noticed how difficult it was to get data and information on Africa’s largest economy and their home country, Nigeria. Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti, an economist; Bode Ogunlana, a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim, a data scientist; and Preston Ideh, a corporate…

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

While studying at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford, a group of graduates noticed how difficult it was to get data and information on Africa’s largest economy and their home country, Nigeria. Each had different yet complementary skills — Michael Famoroti, an economist; Bode Ogunlana, a software engineer; Abdul Abdulrahim, a data scientist; and Preston Ideh, a corporate…

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In The Future of Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa, a new report by TechCabal and Stears Data, the markets for electricity, solar PV technology, and green mini-grids in the region are visualized using maps. #renewable #fotovoltaico #energy #energies cstu.io/be86a4

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Yes, your iPhone and Android devices have a COVID-19 tracker (sort of) — but here’s why you shouldn’t worry

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Volunteer Tuqa Alfatlawi, help Muslim community mostly from Syria, during the Food distribution at the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix. Families in need came for a drive-through service due to coronavirus for safety. Nick Oza/The Republic

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Parishioners attend Mass at St. Luke Catholic Church in Phoenix May 17, 2020. The church resumed services limited to 25% capacity after state restrictions due to the coronavirus were allowed to expire. Michael Chow/The Republic

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Mountain View students laugh and react to cars passing by during the Mountain View High School senior parade salute in Mesa, Ariz. on May 16, 2020. Patrick Breen/The Republic

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Graduating seniors toss their caps at 7: 15pm during the Mountain View High School senior parade salute in Mesa, Ariz. on May 16, 2020. Patrick Breen/The Republic

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Tubers float down the Salt River during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mesa, Ariz. on May 16, 2020. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey lifted his stay-at-home order Friday, the 15, and the day after Salt River Tubing reopened with some guidelines in place to promote safety during the pandemic. Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic

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Local residents go for evening outing at Tempe Town Lake on May 14, 2020. Nick Oza/The Republic

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James Landry (left) and Coy Vernon train while others chill having picnic at Scottsdale Civic Center on May 14, 2020. Nick Oza/The Republic

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Erin Walter, from left, Angelica Kenrick and Sheri Rearick, all with the Professional Beauty Association, participate in an online work meeting at Kenrick’s home in Phoenix on May 14, 2020. Walter and Rearick surprised Kenrick on her birthday by coming to her home, to work from home. The three employees had not seen each other in weeks. David Wallace/The Republic

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May 12, 2020; Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; No spectators allowed signs at the club house during round one at the Scottsdale AZ Open at Talking Stick Golf Club’s OÕodham course. This is the first semi-significant sports event to take place in the Valley since the sports shutdown in March due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Mandatory Credit: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports Rob Schumacher, Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports

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People pack into CASA Tempe on the first day of dine in reopening in Tempe on May 11, 2020. Patrick Breen/The Republic

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People pack into CASA Tempe on the first day of dine-in reopening in Tempe on May 11, 2020. Patrick Breen/The Republic

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Lo-Lo’s Chicken & Waffles offers dine in services after more than a month of take out only due to COVID-19 in Phoenix, Ariz. on May 11, 2020. Many restaurants around Arizona began reopening dining services as Arizona Governor Doug Ducey lifted some restrictions under the COVID-19 lock down. Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic

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From left, Kiaya Stearns, Cae Stearns, Heather Stears and Landen Stearns wave to their grandparents above, Harry and Jeanne Sharkey, during a drive-by Mother’s Day parade at LivGenerations, a senior-living community in Ahwatukee, on May 10, 2020. Seeing their grandparents’ reaction to the parade said it all, they said. “It felt amazing,” Heather Stearns said. Eli Imadali/The Republic

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Sarah Lawrence gets tested for COVID-19 by a Dignity Health medical worker at a drive-up testing site at State Farm Stadium from Dignity Health and the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale on Saturday, May 9, 2020. Eli Imadali/The Republic

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Dignity Health medical workers Stephanie Tyrin and Shannon Miller relax in between patients at a drive-up coronavirus testing site at State Farm Stadium from Dignity Health and the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale on Saturday, May 9, 2020. Eli Imadali/The Republic

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From left, manager David Grady and owner Mimi Nguyen do mother and daughter customers Tonna and Elaina Yutze’s nails at AZ Nails Spa 101 near the P83 Entertainment District in Peoria on May 8, 2020. Eli Imadali/The Republic

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Matthew Gallegos (left) cuts Justin Beam’s hair (right) inside of his shop Matt’s Barber Parlor in Phoenix, Ariz. on May 8, 2020. After Arizona Governor Doug Ducey allowed salons, barbershops, and other retail stores to resume businesses many barbershops and salons in Phoenix began taking clients by appointment only. Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic

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Jets sit parked near the run way at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on May 7, 2020. Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic

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Volunteers, including Andy Torres (center) wait to load food boxes, May 6, 2020, during a St Mary’s Food Bank mobile distribution at the Gila River Arena, 9400 West Maryland, Glendale. Mark Henle/The Republic

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President Trump tours Honeywell Internationalâ€

s mask-making operation in Phoenix May 5, 2020. Honeywell added manufacturing capabilities in Phoenix to produce N95 face masks in support of the governments response to COVID-19. Michael Chow/The Republic

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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (front), Sen. Martha McSally (back left) and Rep Debbie Lesko (right) wear masks while waiting for President Trump to speak at Honeywell Internationalâ€

s mask-making operation in Phoenix May 5, 2020. Honeywell added manufacturing capabilities in Phoenix to produce N95 face masks in support of the governments response to COVID-19. Michael Chow/The Republic

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Phoenix Fire Department helped Bea Markow celebrate her 100th birthday, while keeping social distancing in mind. Phoenix Fire Department

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The staff of Hood Burger outside Cobra Arcade Bar in downtown Phoenix on May 2, 2020. Hood Burger, a nonprofit pop-up eatery, is offering food to help the Arizona Coalition to Arizona Coalition to End Sexual & Domestic Violence. Nick Oza/The Republic

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Demonstrators listen to speakers during a rally for the governor to open the state at Wesley Bolin Plaza in Phoenix. Organizers of the event say that quarantine is for the sick and not the healthy. May 3, 2020. Michael Chow/The Republic

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Derick Asturias gets tested for the novel coronavirus during the testing blitz at Valle del Sol, a testing site in Phoenix on May 2, 2020. Eli Imadali/The Republic

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Jets with Luke Air Force Base and the Arizona National Guard fly over the valley near Luke Air Force base to honor people fighting on the front lines of the COVID-19 virus in Ariz. on May 1, 2020. Thomas Hawthorne, Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic

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Healthcare professionals take a selfie outside Valleywise Health Medical Center as they wait for a flyover from the Arizona National Guard to honor essential workers in Phoenix, Ariz. on May 1, 2020. Patrick Breen/The Republic

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Brandy Nieman, on left, and Jill Cunningham rides in a bus in downtown Phoenix. Valley Metro Transit System will be reducing their services due to Covid-19. Nick Oza/The Republic

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Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald speaks to the media before dropping off food to medical workers April 29, 2020. Fitzgerald was dropping off food from Ocean 44 Restaurant to various health care workers helping with COVID-19. Michael Chow/The Republic

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Quyen Bach (left) and Chris French have their photos taken by Kim Ly at Papago Park in Phoenix on April 29, 2020. Both are graduating from A.T. Still University Arizona School of Dentistry. Michael Chow/The Republic

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Jamie Doles lays with her daughter Paisley, 3, as they watch the Book of Life at the Digital Drive-In AZ in Mesa, Ariz. on April 20, 2020. Patrick Breen/The Republic

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A health care worker stands in counter protest as people march towards the Arizona State Capitol in protest of Gov. Doug Ducey’s stay-at-home order to combat the coronavirus April 20, 2020. They were urging the governor to re-open the state. Michael Chow/The Republic

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The copper dome and Winged Victory statue over the Arizona State Capitol is illuminated with blue light in Phoenix during the “Light It Blue” campaign across the United States to honor essential front-line workers and health care professionals during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Rob Schumacher/The Republic

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United Food Bank volunteers and National Guard soldiers distribute care packages to families on April 17, 2020, at the Mesa Convention Center in Mesa, Ariz. Sean Logan/The Republic

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Melissa Read breaks down cardboard boxes while United Food Bank volunteers and National Guard soldiers distribute care packages to families on April 17, 2020, at the Mesa Convention Center in Mesa, Ariz. Sean Logan/The Republic

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Bruce Forstrom, a volunteer with United Food Bank, prepares emergency food bags at the United Food Bank warehouse in Mesa on April 16, 2020. Despite the increased need because of the coronavirus pandemic, United Food Bank has seen an over 60 percent decrease in volunteers, also because of the pandemic, according to Tyson Nansel, United Food Bank director of public and media relations. David Wallace/The Republic

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A rider wears a mask over her face while traveling east on the Arizona Canal Trail near Goldwater Blvd and East 5th Ave. in Scottsdale. Apr. 15, 2020 Rob Schumacher/The Republic

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James Smith, with Balfour, the company that sells graduations caps and gowns, hands a cap, gown and grad box which includes graduation mailing announcements, to a Skyline high school graduating senior as they pick them up from their vehicle at Skyline high school in Mesa on April 14, 2020. Tom Brennan, principal of Skyline, says he is unsure what kind of graduation ceremony they will have, if any at all, because of the coronavirus pandemic. David Wallace/The Republic

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Frances Rozzen, wearing a mask because of the coronavirus pandemic, looks at the near empty shelves of toilet paper and paper towels at the Safeway grocery store on 16th Street and Southern Avenue in Phoenix on April 13, 2020. David Wallace/The Republic

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A masked golfer tees off on the 12th hole, April 13, 2020, at Arizona Grand Golf Course, 8000 S, Arizona Grand Parkway, Phoenix. Mark Henle/The Republic

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Kathy Jacobsen signals to her mother, Audrey Wilson, 80, who has dementia, through the glass pane of a door, at Arbor Rose Senior Center in Mesa on April 1, 2020. Jacobsen was taking her mother out of the facility because of concerns of a coronavirus outbreak within the facility. She is moving her mother in with her at her Gilbert home. Jacobsen had not be able to visit her mother inside the facility because of the coronavirus pandemic since early March. David Wallace/The Republic

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Charlie and Stacy Derouen raise their hands as they listen to Pastor Jason Anderson during an Easter drive-in service at the Living World Bible Church in Mesa, Ariz. on April 12, 2020. Patrick Breen/The Republic

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Friends catch up on conversation and practice social distancing in an empty shopping center in Phoenix on April 11, 2020. Michael Meister/The Republic

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Apr. 10, 2020; Phoenix, AZ, USA; A cross tops the steeple at Dream City Church in Phoenix during the sunrise on Good Friday. Most churches across the United States will be empty on Easter Sunday due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Rob Schumacher/The Republic

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Damion Holliday (left) and Andrew Morales wait for their flight to San Diego at Terminal 4 on April 9, 2020, at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Sean Logan/The Republic

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Airport employees touch their feet together at Terminal 4 on April 9, 2020, at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Sean Logan/The Republic

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Chalk messages written on a sidewalk in a Tempe neighborhood, reference the coronavirus pandemic on April 8, 2020. David Wallace/The Republic

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Bryan Harding, who works in real estate, works on his front porch in the Maple-Ash neighborhood of Tempe on April 9, 2020. Harding says he likes to work outside because it gives him his own space while his wife works inside. Eli Imadali/The Republic

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People at Living Word Bible Church attend a “drive-in church service” in Mesa, Ariz. April 5, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has forced churches to come up with new ways to hold service while social distancing. People are encouraged to honk for amen. Michael Chow/The Republic

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Zacona Michaux hands out lunches at Edison Elementary School in Mesa on April 9, 2020. Mesa school district is having trouble getting food supplies and is having to scale back on meal distribution. Edison elementary meal site is closing effective April 10. Starting April 13 meals can be picked up a Kino Junior High (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays).

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Haim Ainsworth and his son, Jacob Shapiro-Ainsworth, 11, share a laugh during an online Seder during the first night of the Jewish holiday of Passover at their home in Tempe on April 8, 2020. The Seder which included members from Temple Emanuel was being held online because of the coronavirus pandemic. David Wallace/The Republic

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Apr. 7, 2020; Phoenix, AZ, USA; The supermoon, also known as the pink moon rises over the Papago Park Buttes, it is the biggest and brightest supermoon of 2020. The coronavirus has changed our lives as social distancing is in our lives Rob Schumacher/The Republic

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Cowboy Club employee Jonathan Castillo wipes down a shelf in Sedona on April 7, 2020. Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic

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More than 1,000 rental cars sit in a parking lot near Priest Dr. and Van Buren St. in Phoenix, Ariz. on April 6, 2020. Patrick Breen/The Republic

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Vista Monterey Park in Mesa, Ariz. is closed because of the coronavirus pandemic April 5, 2020. Michael Chow/The Republic

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Dikeya Williams stands for a portrait outside Safeway in Phoenix on April 5, 2020. She’s worn her mask, complete with a stapled on image of teeth with grillz and fangs, for two weeks and works as a child care director and provider. Eli Imadali/The Republic

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Mary Vale (left) and Becky Leuluai wait to give out care packages to hotel employees on April 3, 2020, at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix. Sean Logan/The Republic

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Dee Madden has her hair washed at The Savvy Stylist on a quiet Friday afternoon at the Tempe hair salon on April 3, 2020, just before Gov. Doug Ducey ordered hair and nail salons to be shut down by 5 p.m. on Saturday. Many people are avoiding hair care during the new coronavirus pandemic due to its hands-on nature. Eli Imadali/The Republic

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Farmworkers harvest iceberg lettuce, April 2, 2020, in a Desert Premium Farms field, south of Welton, Arizona. Mark Henle/The Republic

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Colton Williams with Crescent Crown Distributing, delivers beer to Tops Liquors in Tempe, Ariz., on April 2, 2020. Tops Liquors has seen an 40 percent increase in sales in the last two weeks. Cheryl Evans/The Republic

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Isolation tents are set up for homeless persons showing symptoms of COVID-19 at the Central Arizona Shelter Services in Phoenix, Ariz. on April 2, 2020. Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic

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The City of Phoenix closes park amenities due to the COVID-19 health crisis on the first day of Gov. Doug Ducey’s “stay at home” order at Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix. Rob Schumacher/The Republic

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A woman holds a baby outside of the lobby at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix on the first day of Gov. Doug Ducey’s “stay at home” order on April 1, 2020, in Phoenix. Sean Logan/The Republic

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Paige Mulvey, 7, touches hands with her grandmother, Kathy Holcombe, 66, through a door window at her home on March 30, 2020, in Phoenix. Sean Logan/The Republic

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A sign hangs at the front gate to Coyote Ranch, in Yuma, Ariz., Monday, March 29, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Randy Hoeft, AP

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Gov. Doug Ducey listens to speakers on COVID-19 during a news conference at the Arizona Commerce Authority in Phoenix March 30, 2020. Gov. Ducey issued a stay at home order effective close of business March 31. Michael Chow/The Republic

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Dr. Warren Stewart Sr., senior pastor, speaks during a live-streamed Sunday service at First Institutional Baptist Church in Phoenix on March 29, 2020. Eli Imadali/The Republic

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U.S. Army National Guard specialist Frank Rezzano and U.S. Air Force technical sergeant Justin Emanuelson stock shelves at Basha’s grocery store in Scottsdale on March 28, 2020. Eli Imadali/The Republic

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A heart of lighted rooms done by Sheraton Phoenix Downtown on March 27, 2020. Patrick Breen/The Republic

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Timothy Leonard, 73, shops for groceries at Los Altos Ranch Market during the coronavirus pandemic in Phoenix on March 27, 2020. Eli Imadali/The Republic

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Adam Hansen, a doctor from Redirect Health in Glendale, takes a swab from a patient in a drive-thru to test for flu and coronavirus on March 25, 2020. Medicare and some insurance plans will cover the testing (with normal co-pays and deductibles) or there is a $49 self-pay option. Experts say it’s important to get a test inside the first 48 hours of symptoms starting. Nick Oza/The Republic

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Medical assistant Mary Hermiz checks a sample from a patient at a Glendale drive-thru that tests for flu and coronavirus on March 25, 2020. Medicare and some insurance plans will cover the testing (with normal co-pays and deductibles) or there is a $49 self-pay option. Experts say it’s important to get a test inside the first 48 hours of symptoms starting. Nick Oza/The Republic

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As many Phoenicians work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Central Avenue appears empty and void of traffic in downtown Phoenix on March 25, 2020. Michael Chow and Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic

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Spc. Sofia Pez (left) and Spc. Juan Sandoval load a box into a client’s vehicle on March 25, 2020, at the St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance in Phoenix. Mark Henle/The Republic

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Emily Miles has her temperature taken before being allowed to donate blood at a temporary blood bank set up in a church’s fellowship hall Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Tempe, Ariz. Schools and businesses that typically host blood drives are temporarily closed due to precautionary measures in place to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus leading to extremely low levels of blood availability throughout the state. Matt York, AP

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Shawn Ray, owner of S2 Armament LLC, tells a customer that nearly all inventory of firearms and ammo are sold out at Patriot Nation Firearms and Accessories in Phoenix. David Wallace/The Republic

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John White, 9, decorates his mother’s van before a parade for Val Vista Lakes Elementary School students in their neighborhoods on March 23, 2020, in Gilbert, Ariz. Sean Logan/The Republic

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Banner UMC’s drive-up system in Tucson is for emergency room triage for a variety of illnesses and is not for random testing for COVID-19. It has been put in place to keep crowds from the ER and protect the health of patients and staff. Josh Galemore/Arizona Daily Star

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Toliet paper offered with frame purchases at the downtown Farmer’s Market in Phoenix, Ariz. on March 21, 2020. Patrick Breen/The Republic

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Sheena Williams of Nature’s Medicines announcing to keep a distance from each other from long lines for people who are in need with their medical card. Because of the new law on gathering, they were allowing five people at the time, and everyone was keeping a distance from themselves to get their Medicine. Nick Oza/The Republic

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A tent for extra hospital beds is pictured at the Phoenix VA on March 19, 2020, in Phoenix. Eli Imadali/The Republic

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Customers wait for the doors to open, March 17, 2020, at Target, 1818 E. Baseline Road, Tempe. Mark Henle/The Republic

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Individuals are tested for COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus at a mobile clinic set up in the parking lot at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix on the morning of March 18, 2020. Only Mayo Clinic patients with a doctor’s order could use the mobile clinic. A slow but steady stream of vehicles was passing through the mobile clinic on Wednesday morning. David Wallace/The Republic

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Mar. 18, 2020; Grand Canyon National Park, AZ, USA; Two Taiwanese tourists wear N-95 masks while taking in the view at Mather Point at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Due to the coronavirus COVID-19, park entrance fees are suspended, shuttle bus service is suspended and visitor centers are closed. Rob Schumacher/The Republic

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A customers grabs a package of toilet paper on March 18, 2020, at a Target store in Tempe. Target is only allowing one per customer. Mark Henle/The Republic

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Customers grab toilet paper on March 18, 2020, at a Target store in Tempe. Target is only allowing one per customer. Mark Henle/The Republic

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Hikers watch the sun set from the top of “A” Mountain in Tempe on March 17, 2020. Michael Chow/The Republic

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Juliana Posso (L) and Evan Davis during the Brides of March bar crawl at the Churchill in Phoenix, Ariz. on March 13, 2020. Patrick Breen/The Republic

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A sign announces that Major League Baseball has suspended the 2020 spring training season, this is in response to the COVID-19 virus health emergency on March 13, 2020 at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick in Scottsdale. Rob Schumacher/The Republic

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Robert Truman, with SSC Services for Education, uses an electrostatic sprayer to sanitize a classroom on March 12, 2020, at Kyrene de la Mirada Elementary School in Chandler. Mark Henle/The Republic

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Gov. Doug Ducey along with Dr. Cara Christ, director of Arizona Department of Health Services, and Maj. Gen. Michael McGuire walk to a room to update the state on COVID-19 during a news conference in Phoenix on June 17, 2020.

Ryan Randazzo, Arizona Republic Published 8: 00 a.m. MT June 20, 2020

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Yes, your phone might already have a tool to help track COVID-19 on it. No, it’s not tracking you in Arizona.

Many Arizonans were surprised this week to see that their phones have a COVID-19 tracking tool that came with the latest update of their operating system.

The tool, though, isn’t yet being used in Arizona. It would require the Department of Health Services to develop an application and submit it to the tech companies for approval. And importantly, users would have to agree to participate. 

The presence of “COVID-19 Exposure Logging” on phones is unsettling to some nonetheless, as many people have discovered the tool and assumed it was already in use by governments or tech companies to track people’s health.

Twitter and Facebook are full of references tying the update to Monday’s cellular outages. It wasn’t related. If you have the tool on your phone, it came from the latest operating system download you approved.

Facebook has even screened some of the references, indicating they have been fact checked and are partly false. But many other references remain, many encouraging people not to turn the notifications on.

To see if the tool is on an Android device, go to “Settings” and then “Google Settings.”

To see if the tool is on an iPhone, go to “Settings” and then “Privacy” and then “Health.”

Apple and Google actually announced the platform was coming in April, and it’s been widely reported in the technology press such as Wired.

“Privacy, transparency, and consent are of utmost importance in this effort, and we look forward to building this functionality in consultation with interested stakeholders,” the companies said in an April joint statement announcing the partnership. “We will openly publish information about our work for others to analyze.”

How would it work?

If a health department wanted to develop an app for people to allow contract tracing, the platform from Google and Apple would ensure it worked on all phones running those operating systems.

An app would use Bluetooth signals to indicate when two people, or at least their phones, are near one another. It could store the data for 14 days, the maximum time it seems to take people to get sick when exposed to the new coronavirus.

If a person using the app tests positive for COVID-19, that person could notify the app, which could then notify those people who had spent enough time near the infected person to warrant concern. A health department could give them instructions on how to prevent spreading the virus to others or seeking treatment, if needed.

The companies further explained the platform when it was released in May for public health agencies to use if they wanted.

“What we’ve built is not an app — rather public health agencies will incorporate the (application programming interface) into their own apps that people install,” the companies said, explaining that the partnership is intended to make public apps for contact tracing work better.

“Each user gets to decide whether or not to opt-in to Exposure Notifications,” they said. “The system does not collect or use location from the device; and if a person is diagnosed with COVID-19, it is up to them whether or not to report that in the public health app. User adoption is key to success and we believe that these strong privacy protections are also the best way to encourage use of these apps.”

The Arizona Department of Health Services on Friday declined to respond regarding whether the agency had any intention of developing an app that could use the platform.

Alabama, North Dakota and South Carolina are working to use the companies’ technology, and Apple and Google reported that 22 other nations have show interest. 

Tech experts say not to worry

Despite the announcements the platform was coming, finding it embedded on phones seems to have given the effort new reality for consumers, even if it’s not in use.

Phil Simon, a technology expert, author, speaker and advisor who lives in Arizona, said the distrust of tech companies is not unexpected, and neither is the social media storm of misinformation that ensued.

“Outrage sells more than facts,” Simon said Friday. “Studies have indicated people share fake news more than they share facts.”

He said the propensity to distrust technology companies stems from instances where those companies or their employees have acted in bad faith, but the contact tracing platform doesn’t concern him, and he doesn’t think they are doing it as a way to generate revenue.

“They are agreeing this is a way to potentially limit its spread,” he said. “Their motives, I think, are benign.”

“I’m OK with a little information sharing if it’s going to keep me alive and keep me from spreading disease to people,” Simon said.

If states do deploy apps to help with contact tracing, building trust and getting people to participate will be important, he said.

“These apps benefit from the network effect,” he said. “The more people that use it, the better it is.” 

Ken Colburn, founder and CEO of Data Doctors Computer Services in Arizona, recently wrote about the platform, noting that some of the shortcomings could be people traveling between states needing to use separate apps, and health agencies confirming positive cases before alerting potential contacts.

But he, too, said the presence of the platform on phones is not a concern.

“For the time being, there’s nothing to be concerned about if your smartphone has the ‘Exposure Notification’ option as you are in total control,” Colburn said. “Despite what you may be seeing from outraged social media posts, neither company is automatically tracking your movements or forcing your device to engage in contact tracing.”

Reach reporter Ryan Randazzo at ryan.randazzo@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4331. Follow him on Twitter @UtilityReporter.

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The new neighbourhood watch Official data suggest Britons are learning to help each other

But even in an age of civic-mindedness, some are left out

Apr 25th 2020

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WHEN THE rest of Britain was ordered to stay at home on March 23rd, Jane Kinder-Williams was already growing accustomed to isolation. The 66-year-old, who lives on her own in a Buckinghamshire village, was doing her best to avoid others after treatment for cancer. But, with everyone at home, this new form of lockdown is different. Friends and family are in touch even more, via apps like Houseparty, WhatsApp and Zoom. And her street’s WhatsApp group buzzes with endless offers to help. Neighbours have done all her shopping for the past month. “Everybody is making far more of an effort towards each other,” says Ms Kinder-Williams. “We’ve realised how vulnerable we can be.”

This outbreak of neighbourliness is widespread. Official statistics show that 22% of Britons now belong to some form of community support group, with more than a third of them joining since covid-19 began to spread. About 2m people have joined local support networks on Facebook and the number of daily users of Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social network, has risen by 90% during the crisis. All kinds of wheezes, like national street parties and befriending schemes, have tried to induce such fellow feeling, says Harry Hobson, director of Neighbourly Lab, a think-tank. “A crisis accelerates it much more than well-meaning interventions,” he reckons.

Take Chapel-en-le-Frith, a small town in the Peak District. An eighth of its 8,000 residents belong to a covid-19 Facebook group, set up by a dozen volunteers just before the lockdown began. They collect shopping for vulnerable locals but also raise each others’ spirits. Some organised a virtual pub quiz; others put soft toys in their windows so that young children could treat their daily exercise as a “teddy-bear hunt”. Charles Lawley, who helped to set up the group, hopes it will rekindle a neighbourhood spirit left behind as the town has grown. In Warwickshire, Molly Bufton Stear, a recent university graduate, has enlisted an army of volunteers to cook free meals for 30 elderly locals every day. “They write me little notes and I write them things back,” she says.

Such groups have their limitations. Many vulnerable Britons, especially the elderly, are also the most likely to struggle with the internet and smartphones. And neighbourhood groups may not reach the neediest. Polling by Onward, a think-tank, suggests people are most willing to help their neighbours in places where they already feel they can trust each other. Will Tanner, its director, worries about “a virtuous circle in already relatively cohesive and integrated areas”, leaving behind places without such a social fabric. Mr Hobson spoke to a woman who had meticulously checked off all the households on her street to ensure they had the help they needed, but had not leafleted the housing estate over the road.

Others are sceptical that this civic-mindedness will outlast the pandemic. Despite much hype at the time, the London Olympics in 2012 did little to inspire a legacy of volunteering. The bonhomie of street parties is tricky to sustain once the final cupcake has been wolfed down. But, says Mr Hobson, neighbourliness is best thought of as a ratchet. “Once you meet someone, you can’t unmeet them.” Conversation is easier once you know your neighbour’s name. Paradoxically, social distancing and isolation may be just what is needed to bring people together. ■

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Python basics Python is the fastest growing programming languages.In 2020,it is competing with Javascript. Among many reasons,it's popularity is steared by wide application base . Ranging from web development,data science, artificial intelligence,all the way to mobile development. Toping on it,is the fact that it's easy to learn. In these slide series we will cover all the basic syntax of the language. In this first set of slides we will look at the basic introduction and installation. Let's get started. #python #pythonbasics #backendscripting #pythonsyntax (at Lilongwe, Malawi) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9w5QsrhoAW/?igshid=ns3tj5h4piy2

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