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COVID-19 and the Power Sector in Southeast Asia: Impacts and Opportunities
From the Document: "The purpose of this report is twofold: 1. Present an early assessment of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] impacts on the power sectors of countries in SE [Southeast] Asia. 2. Identify opportunities to build power sector resilience as SE Asian countries respond to and recover from these impacts."
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.); United States. Agency for International Development
Lowder, Travis; Lee, Nathan; Leisch, Jennifer E.
2020-06
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MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, February 5, 2021
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This issue of MMWR contains the following: "Sexual Orientation Disparities in Risk Factors for Adverse COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]-Related Outcomes, by Race/Ethnicity -- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, United States, 2017-2019"; "Decreases in Young Children Who Received Blood Lead Level Testing During COVID-19 -- 34 Jurisdictions, January-May 2020"; "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Prevalence of Stress and Worry, Mental Health Conditions, and Increased Substance Use Among Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- United States, April and May 2020"; "'Vital Signs': Prevalence of Multiple Forms of Violence and Increased Health Risk Behaviors and Conditions Among Youths -- United States, 2019"; "Demographic Characteristics of Persons Vaccinated During the First Month of the COVID-19 Vaccination Program -- United States, December 14, 2020-January 14, 2021"; "Early COVID-19 First-Dose Vaccination Coverage Among Residents and Staff Members of Skilled Nursing Facilities Participating in the Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program -- United States, December 2020-January 2021"; and "'QuickStats': Death Rates for Motor-Vehicle-Traffic Injuries, Suicide, and Homicide Among Adolescents and Young Adults Aged 15-24 Years -- United States, 1999-2019." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2021-02-05
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COVID-19 and Direct Payments to Individuals: Comparison of the Second Round of 'Stimulus Checks' in P.L. 116-260 to the First Round in the CARES Act (P.L. 116-136) [Updated January 22, 2021]
From the Document: "At the end of 2020, lawmakers included a second round of direct payments in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 116-260). The payments equal $600 per eligible individual ($1,200 for most married couples) plus an additional $600 per eligible child, phasing down for higher-income households. The first round of direct payments was enacted in the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act (P.L. 116-136) in March 2020. As with the first round of direct payments, the second round of payments are structured as a new one-time refundable credit against 2020 income taxes. Generally, these payments are being automatically issued by the Treasury based on 2019 tax data until January 15, 2021. Eligible households who do not automatically receive a second payment (or who receive less than they would based on their 2020 income and family size) are to generally be able to receive the payment (or receive an additional payment) as a refundable credit when they file their 2020 income tax return. These payments are not taxable and do not count as income or resources for a 12-month period in determining eligibility for, or the amount of assistance provided by, any federally funded public benefit program."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Crandall-Hollick, Margot L.
2021-01-22
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COVID-19 and Direct Payments to Individuals: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About the Second Round of 'Stimulus Checks' in P.L. 116-260 [Updated January 22, 2021]
From the Document: "In response to the continued economic weakness from the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, Congress passed a second round of direct payments as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 116-260). The first round of direct payments were included in the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act (P.L. 116-136). This Insight provides a brief overview of the second round of payments--often referred to as 'stimulus checks.'"
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Crandall-Hollick, Margot L.
2021-01-22
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COVID-19 and Direct Payments: Summary of the CASH Act (H.R. 9051, 116th Congress) Modifications to 'Stimulus Checks' [January 22, 2021]
From the Document: "At the end of the 116th Congress, the House passed the Caring for Americans with Supplemental Help (CASH) Act (H.R. 9051). The CASH Act would have expanded the second round of stimulus checks enacted as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 116-260) and modified the first round of checks enacted in the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act (P.L. 116-136) for certain households with older children and adult dependents. The Biden Administration has proposed increasing already enacted stimulus checks in a similar fashion as proposed in the CASH Act. This Insight summarizes how the CASH Act would have expanded and modified already enacted stimulus checks."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Crandall-Hollick, Margot L.
2021-01-22
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Covid Economics Vetted and Real-Time Papers: Issue 47, 4 September 2020
This September 4, 2020 edition of 'Covid Economics Vetted and Real-Time Papers' contains the following articles: "Test sensitivity for infection versus infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2]" by Joshua S. Gans; "Asset pricing during pandemic lockdown" by Yuta Saito and Jun Sakamoto; "Pandemic shocks and household spending" by David Finck and Peter Tillmann; "The consequences of the Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] job losses: Who will suffer most and by how much?" by Andreas Gulyas and Krzysztof Pytka; "Demand for health insurance in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from the Special Enrollment Period in the Washington State ACA [Affordable Care Act] Marketplace" by Gerardo Ruiz Sánchez; "The distributional effects of COVID-19 and mitigation policies" by Sewon Hur; and "Mass outdoor events and the spread of an airborne virus: English football and Covid-19" Matthew Olczak, J. James Reade and Matthew Yeo.
Centre for Economic Policy Research
2020-09-04
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JHU Return to Campus Guidance for Phase 2
From the Executive Summary: "Our COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] plans have relied on a phased approach beginning with the resumption of low-density activities (labeled broadly as 'Phase 1') followed by medium-density activities ('Phase 2'). This document is intended to serve as guidance for activities while the university remains within Phase 2 and replaces the Phase 1 guide published in 2020. During this phase, only faculty and staff who are teaching, performing research, providing clinical services, or are required for campus operations should work on campus until further notice. All other faculty and staff will continue to work from home throughout the spring semester."
Johns Hopkins University
2020-12-18
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UCF Return to Campus Plan: Fall 2020
From the Executive Summary: "Over the last few months, Knights have worked tirelessly to respond to the pandemic and plan for the short and longterm impacts that will be left in its wake. This plan outlines efforts by many university members to develop a flexible approach to re-open campus while considering adjustments if conditions improve or worsen. While this plan and health measures will be implemented at all our campuses, the expectation is that this plan will guide addressing the unique needs and challenges within our programs, spaces, and campus locations. By committing to a caring culture that starts with our personal behavior and acceptance of responsibility to our community, this plan prioritizes the health and well-being of all our students, faculty, staff, vendors, volunteers, and visitors and provides a roadmap for continuing to provide exceptional academic, research, and athletic programs and services."
University of Central Florida
2020
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COVID-19: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) - Resource for Care Workers Working in Care Homes During Sustained COVID-19 Transmission in England
From the Scope and Purpose: "This resource provides guidance on the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) for care workers working in care homes during the current period of sustained COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] transmission in the UK. This guidance may be read in conjunction with guidance on admission and care of residents in a care home during COVID-19. Providers will need to consider how to operationalise recommendations according to their individual circumstances, operating model and residents' needs. [...] For the purpose of this document, the term 'personal protective equipment' is used to describe products that are either PPE or medical devices that are approved by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) as protective solutions in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Please note that this guidance is of a general nature and that an employer should consider the specific conditions of each individual place of work and comply with all applicable legislation."
Public Health England
2020-11-02
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University of Arkansas Guide to Returning to Campus
From the Document: "'The following sections are designed to provide an overview of the shared expectations, principles, conditions and target timing for returning to campus. This document is not a comprehensive listing of all the activities and plans being deployed across campus. Updates will be made to this guidance if required given the fluidity of the situation.' [...] This planning assumes that the existence of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] will be present into the foreseeable future. The trigger timing for launching many of these events and activities is contingent upon our ongoing assessment of any federal and state guidelines and requirements that may apply. The plan must be received in the spirit of the fluidity that is the current reality and updated as new information becomes available. We need to continue to expect the unexpected. Our aim is to be no more or less restrictive than the guidance provided by state and federal public health agencies."
University of Arkansas
2020-08-19
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NIHB COVID-19 Vaccine Planning Information Session for Tribal Communities 9/25/20 [video]
From the Video Description: "The purpose of the NIHB [National Indian Health Board] webinar was to introduce Tribal leaders to COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] vaccine distribution options and planning considerations. The webinar included an overview of the federal government's COVID-19 vaccine planning activities, and highlighted considerations for Tribal leaders and health organizations serving Tribal and urban Indian communities making decisions about vaccine distribution. The goal of the webinar was to provide background information about COVID-19 vaccine development and potential distribution scenarios in preparation for the regional Tribal consultation calls about COVID-19 vaccine distribution, announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on September 24." The duration of the video is 1 hour, 4 minutes and 14 seconds.
National Indian Health Board
2020-09-28
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Interim Guidance for Homeless Shelters and Encampments to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19
From the Document: "It takes everyone's cooperation to effectively manage the spread of coronavirus disease [2019] (COVID-19) in Hawai'i. The Hawai'i Department of Health (HDOH) has issued recommendations to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at home, in the workplace and other settings. This guidance document is intended for homeless service providers and is developed using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Interim Guidance for Homeless Shelters and other resources. The situation in Hawai'i is rapidly evolving, and these guidelines will be updated as new information becomes available. These recommendations are intended to help slow the spread of COVID-19 and keep our community healthy within the constraints of our resources."
Hawaii. Department of Health
2020-03-18
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EMR-ISAC: InfoGram, Volume 21 Issue 5, February 4, 2021
The Emergency Management and Response Information Sharing and Analysis Center's (EMR-ISAC) InfoGram is a weekly publication of information concerning the protection of critical infrastructures relevant to members of the Emergency Services Sector. This issue includes the following articles: "February is American Heart Month, a time to promote heart health for firefighters"; "FEMA's COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] response continues with support for vaccine distribution"; "DHS S&T's [Science and Technology Directorate] Technology Clearinghouse Pathways to Innovation Learning Series (PILS) is back!"; and "Cyber Threats."
Emergency Management and Response-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (U.S.)
2021-02-04
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COVID-19 Response: Inmate Early Release Plan, State Responsible Inmates Held in a Local Correctional Facility
From the Purpose: "The Inmate Early Release Plan for State Responsible Inmates Held in a Local Correctional Facility provides a procedure for implementing the Budget Amendment approved by the General Assembly during the 2020 Veto Session to allow for the discharge of state responsible inmates held in a local correctional facility, who meet the eligibility criteria for release from incarceration, prior to their scheduled release date consistent with guidance provided in the Budget Amendment approved by the General Assembly during the 2020 Veto Session. The Budget Amendment approved by the General Assembly during the 2020 Veto Session authorizes the Director, during the duration of the declared emergency, to (i) discharge from incarceration or (ii) place into a lower level of supervision, including probation supervision, home electronic incarceration, or other forms of community corrections, any prisoner committed to the Department who has less than one year of his sentence remaining to be served prior to his scheduled release if the Director determines that (a) any such discharge or placement during the declared emergency will assist in maintaining the health, safety, and welfare of any prisoner discharged or placed or the prisoners remaining in state correctional facilities and (b) any such discharge or placement is compatible with the interests of society and public safety. The Inmate Early Release Plan is only in force during the period declared by the Governor as a state of emergency pursuant to §44-146.17 of the Code of Virginia."
Virginia. Department of Corrections
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MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, January 29, 2021
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This issue of MMWR contains the following: "Impact of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2109] on Cervical Cancer Screening Rates Among Women Aged 21-65 Years in a Large Integrated Health Care System -- Southern California, January 1-September 30, 2019, and January 1-September 30, 2020; "Trends in Outbreak-Associated Cases of COVID-19 -- Wisconsin, March-November 2020"; "Response to a COVID-19 Outbreak on a University Campus -- Indiana, August 2020"; "Notes from the Field: An Outbreak of West Nile Virus -- Arizona, 2019"; "Allergic Reactions Including Anaphylaxis After Receipt of the First Dose of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine -- United States, December 21, 2020-January 10, 2021"; "Implementation and Evolution of Mitigation Measures, Testing, and Contact Tracing in the National Football League, August 9-November 21, 2020"; "COVID-19 Cases and Transmission in 17 K-12 [kindergarten to twelfth grade] Schools -- Wood County, Wisconsin, August 31-November 29, 2020"; "SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] Transmission Associated with High School Wrestling Tournaments -- Florida, December 2020-January 2021"; "'QuickStats': Percentage of Women Who Have Ever Used Emergency Contraception Among Women Aged 22-49 Years Who Have Ever Had Sexual Intercourse, by Education -- National Survey of Family Growth, United States, 2017-2019." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2021-01-29
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) and COVID-19 [Updated January 28, 2021]
From the Summary: "The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not currently have a specific standard that protects health care or other workers from airborne or aerosol transmission of disease or diseases transmitted by airborne droplets. Some in Congress, and some groups representing health care, meat and poultry processing, and other workers, are calling on OSHA to promulgate an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to protect workers from exposure to SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2], the virus that causes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) gives OSHA the ability to promulgate an ETS that would remain in effect for up to six months without going through the normal review and comment process of rulemaking. OSHA, however, has rarely used this authority in the past--not since the courts struck down its ETS on asbestos in 1983."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Szymendera, Scott
2021-01-28
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Tracking COVID-19 Vaccines: U.S. Data Systems and Related Issues [January 28, 2021]
From the Document: "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for two Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines, sponsored by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, and millions of vaccine doses are being distributed nationwide. Both vaccines require two doses, which are generally not interchangeable. Key to this effort, several existing and new data systems are in use to track, specifically [1] where the vaccines supply is: for example, whether vaccines are in a storage center or at a provider site, through the Vaccine Tracking System (VTrckS); [2] who has received a vaccine: that is, recipients who have received one or both doses of which vaccine, through jurisdiction-based Immunization Information Systems (IIS); and [3] if any new safety issues occur: several monitoring systems aim to identify new safety issues and inform public health recommendations or FDA actions."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Sekar, Kavya
2021-01-28
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Payroll Tax Credit for COVID-19 Sick and Family Leave [January 25, 2021]
From the Document: "Beginning in April 2020, employers were entitled to payroll tax credits for paid leave required in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. For employers choosing to continue providing eligible paid leave, these tax credits have been extended through March 2021. The paid leave mandate, however, expired at the end of 2020. This In Focus provides an overview of the tax credits for paid leave initially provided in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA; P.L. 116-127) and extended in the COVID-related Tax Relief Act of 2020, enacted as Division N, Title II, Subtitle B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 116-260)."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Sherlock, Molly F.
2021-01-25
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Executive Order 13927 on Economic Recovery from the COVID-19 Emergency and the Endangered Species Act [Updated January 28, 2021]
From the Document: "On June 4, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order (E.O.) 13927 on 'Accelerating the Nation's Economic Recovery from the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Emergency by Expediting Infrastructure Investments and Other Activities.' The President declared the COVID-19 outbreak a national emergency that threatens national security on March 13, 2020 (Proclamation 9994). The E.O. seeks to facilitate the nation's economic recovery from the national emergency by directing selected federal departments and agencies to use emergency and other authorities to expedite regulatory compliance for infrastructure and other projects."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Crafton, R. Eliot; Sheikh, Pervaze A.; Ward, Erin H.
2021-01-28
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Federal Eviction Moratoriums in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic [Updated January 26, 2021]
From the Document: "On September 4, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) imposed a nationwide temporary federal moratorium on residential evictions due to nonpayment of rent. The stated purpose of the order is preventing the further spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), specifically by preventing homelessness and overcrowded housing conditions resulting from eviction. The action, which followed an Executive Order directing the CDC to consider such a measure, is unprecedented, both in terms of the federal reach into what is traditionally state and local governance of landlord-tenant law and its use of a public health authority for this purpose. The national eviction moratorium took effect less than two weeks after the expiration of a different and narrower set of eviction protections established by the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act (§4024). This Insight compares the two eviction moratoriums across several key features and ends with a review of implementation issues raised by the CDC moratorium."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
McCarty, Maggie; Perl, Libby
2021-01-26
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FEMA Funeral Assistance for COVID-19 [January 25, 2021]
From the Document: "The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 mandated that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provide Funeral Assistance for deaths associated with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and appropriated funding to the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) for such purposes. This Insight discusses these provisions, and provides an overview of FEMA Funeral Assistance, including eligible expenses, considerations for determining award amounts, and applicant eligibility criteria per FEMA's guidance."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Webster, Elizabeth M.
2021-01-25
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Firm-Level Risk Exposures and Stock Returns in the Wake of COVID-19
From the Abstract: "Firm-level stock returns differ enormously in reaction to COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] news. We characterize these reactions using the 'Risk Factors' discussions in pre-pandemic 10-K filings and two text-analytic approaches: expert-curated dictionaries and supervised machine learning (ML). Bad COVID-19 news lowers returns for firms with high exposures to travel, traditional retail, aircraft production and energy supply - directly and via downstream demand linkages - and raises them for firms with high exposures to healthcare policy, e-commerce, web services, drug trials and materials that feed into supply chains for semiconductors, cloud computing and telecommunications. Monetary and fiscal policy responses to the pandemic strongly impact firm-level returns as well, but differently than pandemic news. Despite methodological differences, dictionary and ML approaches yield remarkably congruent return predictions. Importantly though, ML operates on a vastly larger feature space, yielding richer characterizations of risk exposures and outperforming the dictionary approach in goodness-of-fit. By integrating elements of both approaches, we uncover new risk factors and sharpen our explanations for firm-level returns. To illustrate the broader utility of our methods, we also apply them to explain firm-level returns in reaction to the March 2020 Super Tuesday election results."
Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics
Davis, Steven J.; Hansen, Stephen; Seminario-Amez, Cristhian
2021-02-03
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Temporary Unemployment and Labor Market Dynamics During the COVID-19 Recession
From the Abstract: "This paper develops a search-and-matching model that incorporates temporary unemployment and applies the model to study the labor market dynamics of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] recession in the US. We calibrate the model using panel data from the Current Population Survey for 2001-2019, and we find that the model-based job finding rates match observed job finding rates during the entire sample period and out-of-sample up through July 2020. We also find that the Beveridge curve is well-behaved and displays little change in market tightness in 2020 once we use the calibrated model to adjust for changes in the composition of the unemployed. We then use the model to project the path of unemployment over the next 18 months. Under a range of assumptions about job losses and labor demand, our model predicts a more rapid recovery compared to a model that does not distinguish between temporary and permanent unemployment and compared to professional and academic forecasts. We find that in order to rationalize the professional forecasts of the unemployment rate, some combination of the vacancy rate, job separation rate, and the recall rate of workers on temporary layoff must deteriorate substantially from current levels in the next several months."
Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics
Gallant, Jessica; Kroft, Kory; Lange, Fabian . . .
2020-08
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Private Equity and COVID-19
From the Introduction: "We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM) about their portfolio performance, decision-making and activities during the Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. Given that PE managers have significant incentives to maximize value, their actions during the current pandemic should indicate what they perceive as being important for both the preservation and creation of value. PE managers believe that 40% of their portfolio companies are moderately negatively affected and 10% are very negatively affected by the pandemic. The private equity managers--both investment and operating partners-- are actively engaged in the operations, governance, and financing in all of their current portfolio companies. These activities are more intensively pursued in those companies that have been more severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result of the pandemic, they expect the performance of their existing funds to decline. They are more pessimistic about that decline than the VCs [venture capital] surveyed in Gompers et al. (2020b). Despite the pandemic, private equity managers are seeking new investments. Relative to the 2012 survey results reported in Gompers, Kaplan, and Mukharlyamov (2016): the PE investors place a greater weight on revenue growth for value creation; they give a larger equity stake to management teams; and, they also appear to target somewhat lower returns."
Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics
Gompers, Paul A.; Kaplan, Steven N.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir
2020-09
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Return to School: A Guide to Responding to COVID-19 Cases in K-12 School Settings. 2020-2021
From the Document: "This document was designed to provide guidance for Fresno County K-12 [kindergarten-12th grade] schools in response to COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] related scenarios. As students return to school and in-person instruction resumes, we recognize the importance of protecting the health and safety of our students, school staff, and community. The goal of this document is to help school staff respond to different scenarios and cases of COVID-19. This document is applicable to all K-12 schools, public or private, throughout Fresno County. As schools prepare to resume-in person instruction, we advise schools to prepare plans for remote instruction for students who may need to isolate or quarantine. Schools should also be prepared for short-term and long-term school closures. The following guidance is included in this document: [1] COVID-19 Prevention and Best Practices; [2] COVID-19 School Scenario Guidance; [3] Guidelines for COVID-19 Exposure Scenarios for Schools. We will continue to revise these documents as necessary and as guidance from the California Department of Public Health and CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] is updated."
Fresno County (Calif.). Department of Public Health
2021-01-13
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COVID-19 Pandemic Prompts a New Look at Ecological Security
From the Document: "Resilient and healthy ecosystems help prevent wildfires, flooding, and other natural disasters. As the Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] crisis illustrates, the unsafe exploitation of the natural environment can also have a lasting impact on population health and economic growth. In addition, damage to ecosystems can affect food and water security, and even political stability. All of these factors make up a broader notion of ecological security. What is needed now is a reassessment of how societies prioritize the preservation of healthy ecosystems to support human health and wellbeing. This concept, often called 'Planetary Health' or the 'One Health' framework, views biodiversity management, land-use practices, and food production systems as dynamic interconnections among the plants, animals and people that make up an ecosystem. The health and ecological challenges that the world faces today can only be addressed by widespread adoption of this approach."
East-West Center
Brewington, Laura
2020-09-18
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COVID-19's Impact on Older Workers: Employment, Income, and Medicare Spending
From the Introduction: "From the earliest days of the pandemic, COVID-19's [coronavirus disease 2019] disproportionate impact on the health of people age 65 and older -- in rates of infection, hospitalization, and death -- has been painfully apparent. Yet the pandemic's impact on the financial well-being of older people -- in terms of employment, income, and health insurance coverage -- has received little, if any, attention. To fill that gap, this issue brief describes the demographics of older workers and assesses their pandemic-related loss of employment, income, and employer-sponsored health insurance coverage. It also considers the potential effect of these losses on federal spending for Medicare."
Commonwealth Fund
Jacobson, Gretchen A.; Feder, Judith M.; Radley, David C.
2020-10
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COVID-19 Resources for People Who Use Drugs and Other Vulnerable Communities
This document is a compilation of the following resources: "Syringe Services and Harm Reduction Provider Operations During the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Outbreak"; "COVID-19 Symptoms: What People Who Use Drugs Need to Know"; "COVID-19 Guidance for Syringe Service Program and Other Harm Reduction Programs"; "Handwashing and COVID-19 Prevention for Unhoused People"; "CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] DIY [do-it-yourself] Face Mask Sheet"; "NHCHC [National Health Care for the Homeless Council] Using PPE [personal protective equipment] Properly Sheet"; "COVID-19, Surface and Disinfection for Syringe Service Providers and Other Harm Reduction Providers"; "Sex Work, COVID-19 and Harm Reduction"; "COVID-19, Stimulants Use, and Harm Reduction", Communication Planning Templates from the CDC; and sample materials from partners of Vital Strategies' Overdose Prevention Program.
Vital Strategies; Resolve to Saves Lives
2020?
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EMR-ISAC: InfoGram, Volume 21 Issue 4, January 28, 2021
The Emergency Management and Response Information Sharing and Analysis Center's (EMR-ISAC) InfoGram is a weekly publication of information concerning the protection of critical infrastructures relevant to members of the Emergency Services Sector. This issue includes the following articles: "NTSB [National Transportation Safety Board] issues recommendations addressing responder safety risks from battery fires in electric vehicles"; "FEMA releases EOC [Emergency Operations Centers] Toolkit"; "ASPR [Assistant to the Secretary for Preparedness and Response] TRACIE [Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange] creates 2020 Resources Digest and COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Vaccine Resources collection"; "National Fire Academy now accepting applications for course vacancies but suspends application periods for EFO [executive fire officer] and MO [managing officer] programs"; and "Cyber Threats."
Emergency Management and Response-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (U.S.)
2021-01-28
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COVIDcast: Joseph E. Stiglitz on Global Cooperation in a Time of International Mistrust [audio]
From the Audio Description: "In this episode of COVIDcast, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Alexandre Dayant sat down with Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz to discuss the prospect of global cooperation in a time of rising populism and international mistrust. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics and University Professor at Columbia University, is Chief Economist at the Roosevelt Institute and a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank." The duration of the audio is 26 minutes and 28 seconds.
Lowy Institute for International Policy
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
2020-10-07
