By: Kristina Lanuza Hope From Home is a digital fundraising event that takes place on April 7th, or World Health Day to help deal with the impacts of COVID-19. With people such as JackSepticEye (a YouTuber and actor known for his vlogs and comedy) and Phil Lester (known for his popular YouTube channel, AmazingPhil) taking part, it is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, fundraisers for COVID-19 around. The Hope From Home fundraiser was created by Tiltify and is partnered with three major non-profit organizations: the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund, the United Way and Red Nose Day. Each of these non-profits have different goals in regards to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund works to support the research of the virus and help provide care to patients that require it. United Way helps those in need access food, shelter and other necessities including information about COVID-19. Lastly, Red Nose Day strives to help children in poverty during this pandemic through donations going to food, shelter and medicine. This event will be a multi-platform digital fundraising event, meaning that it will take place on multiple different social media platforms across the internet. Small channels and larger influencers will each be on their respective platforms spreading information, stories and awareness. Throughout April 7th, those partaking in the fundraising event will be streaming, posting and spreading awareness about the fundraiser, collecting donations that will go to the three non-profit partners of the event. Whether it be by collecting or donating money, sharing the event itself through social media posts or word of mouth, even just maintaining the rules of social distancing, everybody has a chance to help those that are affected across the world by COVID-19.
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By: Priya Migneault Right now, there is a lot of misinformation about COVID-19 being spread online and it is creating an environment of fear that is starting to affect Albertan's. To eliminate some of this fear I have decided to clear the air about the numbers of COVID in Alberta. As of today, Alberta has 1,181 cases of COVID-19, which may seem like a lot but Alberta has a population of 4.371 million people. Out of these cases 75 people have been hospitalized and 25 are in critical condition. The highest concentration of cases in Alberta is in the SE section of Calgary, with 118 active cases. 62% of COVID cases are in Calgary, with 48% of those sick being male and 52% being female. Tragically this virus has claimed 20 lives in Alberta to date.
Looking at the data it seems like females under the age of 34 are more likely to contract the virus than their male counterparts. However, males between the ages of 35 to 64 have contracted the virus more than females the same age. Both genders, ages 65 to 80+, have a very similar results of contracting the virus, with females having a slightly higher chance. If your interested in knowing more about this data and how it looks currently please click the button below to link you to Alberta Health Services webpage. |
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