Critical Releases in Homeland Security: April 8, 2020

From the Document: "This is the first in a series of briefings from ISD's [Institute for Strategic Dialogue] Digital Research Unit on the information ecosystem around Covid-19. This first briefing compiles research from ISD's own analysis of online platforms, as well as summarising recent investigations and research on the state of play of disinformation around Covid-19."

From the Introduction: "The United States and like-minded countries will lead global development, deployment, and management of secure and reliable fifth-generation (5G) communications infrastructure, which includes hardware, software, and services used to provide 5G. The United States will work with our like-minded partners to establish policies and structures to leap ahead of global industry competitors as 5G standards, 5G technology, and applications that ride on 5G technology evolve. [...] This National Strategy to Secure 5G expands on how the United States Government will secure 5G infrastructure domestically and abroad."

From the Abstract: "Social distancing policies are critical but economically painful measures to flatten the curve against emergent infectious diseases. As the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 [coronavirus disease] spread throughout the United States in early 2020, the federal government issued social distancing recommendations but left to the states the most difficult and consequential decisions restricting behavior, such as canceling events, closing schools and businesses, and issuing stay-at-home orders. We present an original dataset of state-level social distancing policy responses to the epidemic and explore how political partisanship, COVID-19 caseload, and policy diffusion explain the timing of governors' decisions to mandate social distancing. An event history analysis of five social distancing policies across all fifty states reveals the most important predictors are political: all else equal, Republican governors and governors from states with more Trump supporters were slower to adopt social distancing policies. These delays are likely to produce significant, on-going harm to public health."