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COVID-19 in Africa: Regional Socio-Economic Implications and Policy Priorities
From the Document: "Although the number of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] cases and fatalities might still appear comparatively low in Africa than in other world regions, the looming health shock of COVID-19 could have disastrous impacts on the continent's already strained health systems, and could quickly turn into a social and economic emergency. Beyond health risks, the COVID-19 shock to African economies is coming in three waves: (i) lower trade and investment from China in the immediate term; (ii) a demand slump associated with the lockdowns in the European Union and OECD countries; and (iii) a continental supply shock affecting domestic and intra-African trade. It is shaking commodity-driven growth models that had largely failed to create more and better jobs or improve well-being. On the health front, greater capacities to test, protect, treat and cure are essential. On the socio-economic front, policy measures should cushion income and jobs losses, while tackling the specific challenges of high informality. Beyond the immediate response, recovery strategies should include a strong structural component to reduce dependence on external financial flows and global markets, and develop more value-adding, knowledge-intensive and industrialised economies, underpinned by a more competitive and efficient services sector. Effective implementation of the AfricanContinental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the African Union's productive transformation agenda can strengthen regional value chains, reduce vulnerability to external shocks, advance the digital transition, and build economic resilience against future crises."
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
2020-05-07
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Resilience: Mitigating Risk During State Re-Openings
From the Document: "As states begin to relax the restrictions on meetings and movement they imposed to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, it is vital that communities of faith play a leadership role in preventing the unnecessary spread of disease and death within their communities and among their neighbors. The resumption of more traditional forms of worship will be a cause for celebration, but only if it is accomplished responsibly, with due consideration for the most informed guidance for preserving the health and well being of worshippers and their neighbors alike. As of April 28, 2020, a number of states have begun to reopen, or plan to, in the coming days. While this is not the recommended guidance by many health care experts, following the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) suggestions will be critical to prevent mass exposure and increased COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] infections. As we endure as one nation, let us be reminded that our actions directly impact life and death for all our friends and neighbors."
Rutgers University. Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience
Clark, Ronald J.; Kula, Shannon M.
2020-05-07
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AAF Exchange -- Ep. 29: The Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis (Pt.7) [audio]
From the Audio Duration: "With unemployment at an all time high, will we see worse numbers in Quarter 2? AAF [American Action Forum] [ President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses the path toward economic recovery amid the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] crisis." The duration of the audio is 19 minutes and 28 seconds.
American Action Forum
2020-05-07
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Stress Test People, Technology, and the Safety Net in Response to Covid 19 [video]
From the Video Description: "The economic damage of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has led millions of Americans to seek assistance from the safety net, which has exposed both the existing flaws in the public benefits system and the new challenges in serving a massive influx of people. What is it like to navigate this crush as both applicant and service provider? What are we learning about technology and policy that will help us rebuild a benefits system for this moment and the rest of the 21st Century?" The duration of the video is 1 hour, 5 minutes, and 7 seconds.
Aspen Institute
2020-05-07
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Disaster Relief Fund: Monthly Report as of April 30, 2020 (Fiscal Year 2020 Report to Congress)
From the Background: "P.L. 116-93 requires that the FEMA Administrator provide a report by the fifth business day of each month on the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) that includes a funding summary, a table delineating DRF funding activities each month by state and event, a summary of the funding for the catastrophic events, and the fund exhaustion date, or end-of-fiscal-year balance. P.L. 116-136 requires that both projected and actual costs for funds provided by it for major disasters and any other expenses be provided to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-05-07
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U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Economic Partnership Recovery Plan
From the Key Takeaways: "[1] The United States, Mexico, and Canada [USMCA] have been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic and must work together to mitigate economic damage. [2] Mexico and Canada are America's most important trading partners, and all three have transformed North America into a prosperous free trade region. [3] It is imperative that the partners accelerate planning for the region's post-pandemic economic comeback, using the USMCA as a foundation."
Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Kim, Anthony B.; Roberts, James M.; Quintana, Ana
2020-05-07
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FEMA Advisory: Coronavirus Pandemic: Whole-Of-America Response (May 7, 2020)
From the Document: "Attached you will find today's Daily Briefing Points for the Whole-of-America response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. These briefing points include Topline Messages, as well as information on Supply Chain Task Force; By the Numbers; FEMA and Department of Health and Human Services Response; and Guidance from Federal Agencies."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-05-07
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Whole-Of-America Response (May 7, 2020)
From the Document: "[1] As of May 5, FEMA, HHS [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services], and the private sector combined have coordinated the delivery of or are currently shipping: 86.1 million N95 respirators, 123.5 million surgical masks, 8.2 million face shields, 19.4 million surgical gowns, 948.6 million gloves, 10,663 ventilators and 8,450 federal medical station beds. [2] EMA is coordinating two shipments totaling a 14-day supply of personal protective equipment to all 15,400 Medicaid and Medicare-certified nursing homes. The shipments are meant to supplement existing efforts to provide equipment to nursing homes. [3] As of May 5, CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], state, and local public health labs and other laboratories have tested more than 7.4 million samples."
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2020-05-07
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May 7, 2020: Asian-Americans Face Hate Crimes and Intimidation During the Pandemic
This is the May 7, 2020 Daily COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) report from the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). From the Document: "In today's COVID-19 report, PERF examines the nature and extent of hate crimes against Asian Americans and how police departments and other organizations are responding."
Police Executive Research Forum
2020-05-07
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Medicaid Recession-Related FMAP Increases [May 7, 2020]
From the Document: "Medicaid is a means-tested entitlement program that finances the delivery of primary and acute medical services, as well as long-term services and supports. Historically, Medicaid eligibility generally has been limited to low-income children, pregnant women, parents of dependent children, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities. [...] The federal government provided states with fiscal relief through temporary FMAP [federal medical assistance percentage] rate increases in response to the 2001 recession (March 2001 through November 2001) and the Great Recession (December 2007 through June 2009). The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA; P.L. 116-127), enacted on March 18, 2020, recently added a temporary Medicaid FMAP increase, beginning January 1, 2020, and continuing through the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency period. This report begins with an overview of the FMAP rate. Then, it discusses the recession-related impact on the Medicaid program based on the experiences of the 2001 recession and the Great Recession. The final section of this report describes the three recession-related FMAP increases and compares them according to their various aspects, such as time periods for the FMAP increases, the amounts of the increases, and the requirements for states to receive the increases."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Mitchell, Alison
2020-05-07
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How U.S. Travel Restrictions on China Affected the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States
From the Abstract: "Early in the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, President Trump imposed travel restrictions on the People's Republic of China (PRC) to slow its spread to the United States. We use the synthetic control method (SCM) under eight different specifications to see whether the travel restrictions slowed the domestic spread of COVID-19. In most specifications, the travel restriction had no effect on the number of COVID-19 cases in the United States. In two specifications, the travel restriction reduced the number of COVID-19 cases for up to 15 days after the ban was enacted. Regardless of the intervention date or how the spread of COVID-19 is measured, we find that the travel restrictions did not delay the prevalence of COVID-19 or did so by 15 days at most."
Cato Institute
Nowrasteh, Alex; Forrester, Andrew C.
2020-05-07
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Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress [May 6, 2020]
From the Introduction: "This report presents background information and issues for Congress concerning the Navy's force structure and shipbuilding plans. The current and planned size and composition of the Navy, the annual rate of Navy ship procurement, the capacity of the naval shipbuilding industry, and the prospective affordability of the Navy's shipbuilding plans have been oversight matters for the congressional defense committees for many years."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
O'Rourke, Ronald
2020-05-06
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Intelligence Community Support to Pandemic Preparedness and Response [May 6, 2020]
From the Introduction: "Congressional interest in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) includes understanding its origins, how it evolved into a global pandemic, and the effectiveness of measures to mitigate its impact on communities. Multiple government agencies are involved in responding to these queries both domestically and globally. The Intelligence Community (IC), for example, supports disease surveillance efforts of the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The use of surveillance in the COVID-19 response has raised concerns among privacy and civil liberties advocates about what 'surveillance' means, and which government agencies are responsible for implementing surveillance programs. There are also questions some have raised about what the United States knows about the origins of the pandemic and when it first learned of its existence. This In Focus describes and explains the IC's specific role in pandemic preparedness and response."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
DeVine, Michael E.
2020-05-06
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Formal Removal Proceedings: An Introduction [May 6, 2020]
From the Document: "The Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause confers substantive and procedural protections to all persons within the United States, including non-U.S. nationals (aliens) who the federal government seeks to remove from the country. Once an alien has 'passed through our gates, even illegally,' the Supreme Court has declared, the alien 'may be expelled only after proceedings conforming to traditional standards of fairness encompassed in due process of law.'"
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Smith, Hillel R.
2020-05-06
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U.S. Foreign Assistance [Updated May 6, 2020]
From the Background: "Foreign assistance is an instrument of U.S. policy through which the U.S. government provides resources to another country's government, civil society, or other private sector entity on a grant or concessional loan basis. Most U.S. foreign assistance is administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC); the U.S. Departments of State, Agriculture (USDA), the Treasury, and Defense (DOD); or is channeled through multilateral organizations."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Lawson, Marian Leonardo; Morgenstern, Emily M.
2020-05-06
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Navy LPD-17 Flight II and LHA Amphibious Ship Programs: Background and Issues for Congress [Updated May 6, 2020]
From the Summary: "This report discusses two types of amphibious ships being procured for the Navy: LPD-17 Flight II class amphibious ships and LHA-type amphibious assault ships. Both types are built by Huntington Ingalls Industries/Ingalls Shipbuilding (HII/Ingalls) of Pascagoula, MS. The first LPD-17 Flight II class ship, LPD-30, was procured in FY2018; the Navy's FY2021 budget submission estimates its cost at $1,819.6 million (i.e., about $1.8 billion). LHA-type amphibious assault ships are procured once every few years. LHA-8 was procured in FY2017; the Navy's FY2021 budget submission estimates its cost at $3,832.0 million (i.e., about $3.8 billion)."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
O'Rourke, Ronald
2020-05-06
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Army Corps of Engineers: Section 7001 Annual Report on Future Studies and Projects [Updated May 6, 2020]
From the Document: "The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), through its civil works mission, undertakes water resource development studies and projects and other assistance activities that are specifically authorized by Congress. In Section 7001 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) of 2014 (P.L. 113-121; 33 U.S.C. §2282d), Congress established an annual process for identifying proposals for site-specific studies and projects within USACE's water resource mission and authorities. The process includes a call for nonfederal proposals and concludes with a report by the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works (ASACW) to USACE's congressional authorizing committees."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Normand, Anna E.
2020-05-06
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Medicare Part B: Enrollment and Premiums [May 6, 2020]
From the Introduction: "Medicare is a federal insurance program that pays for covered health care services of most individuals aged 65 and older and certain disabled persons. Medicare serves approximately one in six Americans and virtually all of the population aged 65 and over. [...] Medicare consists of four parts--Parts A through D. [...] Part B covers a broad range of medical services and supplies, including physician services, laboratory services, durable medical equipment, and outpatient hospital services. Enrollment in Part B is voluntary; however, most Medicare beneficiaries (about 91%) are enrolled in Part B. [...] This report provides an overview of Medicare Part B premiums, including information on Part B eligibility and enrollment, late-enrollment penalties, collection of premiums, determination of annual premium amounts, premiums for high-income enrollees, premium assistance for low-income enrollees, protections for Social Security recipients from rising Part B premiums, and historical Medicare Part B premium trends. This report also provides a summary of various premium-related issues that may be of interest to Congress. Specific Medicare and Social Security publications and other resources for beneficiaries, and those who provide assistance to them, are cited where appropriate."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Davis, Patricia A.
2020-05-06
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Covid Economics Vetted and Real-Time Papers: Issue 14, 6 May 2020
This May 6, 2020 edition of 'Covid Economics Vetted and Real-Time Papers' contains the following articles: "A simple planning problem for Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] lockdown" by Fernando Alvarez, David Argente and Francesco Lippi; "Economic policy incentives to preserve lives and livelihoods" by Roberto Chang and Andrés Velasco; "Where are the missing emergencies? Lockdown and health risk during the pandemic" by Jorge Alé-Chilet Juan Pablo Atal, and Patricio Domínguez; "Health vs. wealth? Public health policies and the economy during Covid-19" by Peter Zhixian Lin, and Christopher M. Meissner; "When the markets get Covid: Contagion, viruses, and information diffusion" by Mariano Massimiliano Croce, Paolo Farroni, and Isabella Wolfskeil; "Inequality of fear and selfquarantine: Is there a trade-off between GDP [gross domestic product] and public health?" by Sangmin Aum, Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee, and Yongseok Shin; "COVID-19: Cross-country heterogeneity in effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions" by Gonzalo Castex, Evgenia Dechter, and Miguel Lorca; and "Working from home under Covid-19: Who is affected? Evidence from Latin American and Caribbean countries" by Isaure Delaporte and Werner Peña.
Centre for Economic Policy Research
2020-05-06
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Privacy and Ethics Recommendations for Computing Applications Developed to Mitigate COVID-19
From the Document: "Great strides over the last twenty years in leveraging data and computing in science, technology, and policy fuel excitement about harnessing data and computing technologies to mitigate the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. [...] The potential costs associated with losses of privacy, disparity of access to technologies, and unfair resource allocation linked to uses of data-centric computing technologies must be weighed against the value and urgency in adopting promising new data-centric computational tools to fight the current pandemic. Adopting a series of best practices and standards will limit the risks that come with reliance on new technologies for responding to COVID-19, help defeat the current virus, and help provide insights and technology policy and infrastructure needed to identify and contain the rise of infectious disease threats needed to respond to future pandemics."
National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence
Horvitz, Eric J. (Eric Joel); Clyburn, Mignon; Griffiths, José-Marie . . .
2020-05-06?
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Priority Open Recommendations: General Services Administration
From the Document: "The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the General Services Administration's (GSA) implementation of GAO's [Government Accountability Office] recommendations and to call your personal attention to open recommendations that deserve high priority. In November 2019, we reported that, on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 5 years ago were implemented. GSA implemented all 15 of the recommendations we made to GSA in fiscal year 2015. As of April 2020, GSA had 67 open recommendations. Fully implementing all of these recommendations could significantly improve GSA's operations."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-05-06
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Operational Toolkit for Businesses Considering Reopening or Expanding Operations in COVID-19
From the Webpage: "This operational toolkit has been developed to help business owners who are considering reopening or expanding their operations to determine their establishments' risk of transmission of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] and how to reduce it. As displayed in the figure below, the Operational Toolkit consists of 3 parts: an instruction manual; a business risk worksheet; and an assessment calculator."
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Mullen, Lucia; Kobokovich, Amanda; Sell, Tara Kirk . . .
2020-05-06
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State of the Aviation Industry: Examining the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, U.S. Senate, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, Second Session, May 6, 2020 [video]
This video is from the May 6, 2020 hearing on "State of the Aviation Industry: Examining the Impact of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Pandemic," held before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. From the opening statement of Roger Wicker: "No part of the American economy has escaped the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The air transportation sector has suffered a particularly painful blow, one intensified by global travel restrictions and stay-at-home orders. Domestic air travel has declined over 95 percent compared to last year. Planes are flying with 12 passengers on average. Half of the U.S. passenger aircraft fleet is sitting idle. The air cargo sector is marginally better, but is still struggling." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Eric Fanning, Nicholas Calio, Hilary Godwin, and Todd Hauptli. The length of the video is 2 hours, 53 minutes, and 49 seconds.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
2020-05-06
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Snapshot: How Extremist Groups Are Responding to Covid-19
From the Introduction: "As the world rallies to meet the challenge posed by the Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, extremist actors from across the ideological spectrum have sought to use upheaval and uncertainty for their own ends. Extremist groups are beginning to recognise the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic, seeing opportunities to exploit fears, exacerbate tensions and mobilise supporters while governments are occupied with trying to address Covid-19. This Snapshot briefing provides a rapid assessment of extremist attacks, activities and messaging amid the global response to Covid-19. This includes tracking how different extremist actors are engaging with the Covid-19 crisis and a summary of major extremism-related incidents and developments from around the world. The insight we provide is not exhaustive and should not be viewed as such, but is intended to offer timely and useful insight as dynamics unfold."
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
2020-05-06
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Country Analysis Executive Summary: United Arab Emirates
From the Overview: "'As of 2019, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is among the world's 10 largest oil producers and is a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF).' [1] A member of OPEC, the UAE is currently the seventh-largest petroleum and other liquids producer in the world. Based on a seven-month total of revenues collected through July 2019, hydrocarbon export revenues are projected to account for $72 billion in 2019, about 25% of all export revenue. [2] The UAE has abundant natural resources. Relatively energy intensive compared with other industrialized countries, the UAE's economy is fueled largely by natural gas and petroleum and other liquids. [...3] In addition to the country's large hydrocarbon economy, the UAE is becoming one of the world's most important financial centers and a major trading center in the Middle East."
United States. Energy Information Administration
2020-05-06
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COVID-19 FHA Decision Support Tool
From the Product Summary: "One of CFE-DM's [Center for Excellence in Disaster Management] contributions to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) information sharing efforts is providing this Decision Support Tool (DST) to enhance the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's (USINDOPACOM) planning capabilities for potential Foreign Humanitarian Assistance (FHA) in a COVID-19 environment. The process of developing the DST can be described as a successive layering of data until a snapshot of the current state of a country is presented for planning considerations in a complex environment. Each country's 2-page DST presents information on COVID-19 cases and the affected nation's response and planning, integrated with humanitarian community response and recent disaster response and risk affecting the country. All countries and U.S. territories in the USINDOPACOM AOR [Area of Responsibility] are included. Sections are updated daily."
Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance
2020-05-06
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COVID-19: How New Information Should Drive Policy, Roundtable Hearing Before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, Second Session, May 6, 2020 [video]
This video is from the May 6, 2020 roundtable hearing on "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]: How New Information Should Drive Policy," held before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Scott W. Atlas, David L. Katz, Pierre Kory, John P.A. Ioannidis, Avik Roy, and Tom Inglesby. The length of the video is 3 hours, 14 minutes, and 35 seconds.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
2020-05-06
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State Actions to Support Social, Emotional, and Academic Development: Fostering Connectedness in the Pandemic Era
From the Document: "Social distancing and school closures forced by the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic present extraordinary challenges for education. While we are only just beginning to understand the impact of the last few months and what the months ahead will mean for students, families, and educators, we know that the depth of students' connectedness to school and the quality of their relationships with adults and peers in school are critical to learning and thriving in life. State leaders can take action now and through the 2020-21 school year and legislative sessions to advance policy solutions that develop, maintain, and strengthen the crucial connections and relationships that are necessary for healing and learning."
Aspen Institute
2020-05-06?
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Responding to COVID-19 in Africa: Using Data to Find a Balance
From the Executive Summary: "In this report, the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] (PERC), a consortium of global public health organizations and private sector firms, brings together findings from a survey conducted March 29-April 17, 2020 in 28 cities across 20 AU [African Union] Member States, along with epidemiological measures of disease transmission and indicators of population movements and unrest, among others. Synthesized, these data provide a first-of-its-kind snapshot of baseline conditions in Africa during this rapidly evolving pandemic."
Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC)
2020-05-06?
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COVID-19: The CIDRAP Viewpoint Part 2: Effective COVID-19 Crisis Communication
From the Introduction: "Whether your community has been hit hard by COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] or has been relatively unscathed so far, one thing has remained constant. Messages from government leaders and even public health officials have been all over the map, leaving in their wake much confusion and anxiety. One reason for this: Principles of crisis communication have often been ignored by officials, experts, journalists, and other commentators during this early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Key points like 'Don't over-reassure,' 'Proclaim uncertainty,' and 'Admit mistakes' make for good leadership during infectious disease outbreaks and help us all cope. These principles are fairly well established. Not that there is hard evidence to support them all. Much like public health experts, crisis communication experts must often lean on intuition and experience, making claims that are plausible (and fervently espoused) despite lack of hard proof. But it is safe to say that most crisis communication professionals would agree with the six principles detailed below, though some might disagree with our specific critiques of how so many COVID-19 communicators have flouted these principles."
Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
Sandman, Peter M.; Lanard, Jody
2020-05-06
