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Resources for Tracking Federal COVID-19 Spending [Updated September 15, 2020]
From the Document: "Congress has responded to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with supplemental appropriations measures providing relief and assistance to individuals and families, state and local governments, businesses, health care providers, and other entities. [...] This report provides selected sources for tracking COVID-19 relief and assistance spending. It includes links to and information on government sources detailing spending amounts at various levels, including consolidated spending by multiple government agencies, spending by individual government agencies, and spending to specific recipients and geographies. The sources themselves are large government databases, individual agencies, oversight entities, and selected nongovernmental entities that attempt to repackage information on spending amounts obtained from available government sources."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Teefy, Jennifer; Kreiser, Maria
2020-09-15
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Resources for Tracking Federal COVID-19 Spending [Updated September 2, 2020]
From the Summary: "Congress has responded to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with supplemental appropriations measures providing relief and assistance to individuals and families, state and local governments, businesses, health care providers, and other entities. [...] This report provides selected sources for tracking COVID-19 relief and assistance spending. It includes links to and information on government sources detailing spending amounts at various levels, including consolidated spending by multiple government agencies,spending by individual government agencies, and spending to specific recipients and geographies. The sources themselves are large government databases, individual agencies, oversight entities, and selected nongovernmental entities that attempt to repackage information on spending amounts obtained from available government sources. Due to the continually evolving nature of information provided by sources that track federal COVID-19 spending, this report may be updated frequently."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Teefy, Jennifer; Kreiser, Maria
2020-09-02
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COVID-19: Resources for Tracking Federal Spending [Updated July 31, 2020]
From the Document: "Congress has responded to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with various legislation providing relief to individuals and families, state and local governments, businesses, health care providers, and other entities. This Insight provides selected sources for tracking COVID-19 relief funding provided through these bills."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Teefy, Jennifer; Kreiser, Maria A.
2020-07-31
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COVID-19: Supplementing Unemployment Insurance Benefits (Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation vs. Lost Wages Assistance) [August 31, 2020]
"Among other temporary Unemployment Insurance (UI) provisions authorized under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act; P.L. 116-136; enacted March 27, 2020), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) provided an additional, federally financed $600 weekly benefit that augmented all UI benefits from March 29, 2020, until July 25, 2020, for most states (July 26, 2020, for New York). The FPUC authority is now expired. [...] This Insight discusses the now-expired FPUC benefit and currently authorized LWA [Lost Wages Assistance] grants to states, including key differences in authorization and administration, benefit amount, eligibility, and funding. For a preliminary legal analysis of LWA, see CRS Legal Sidebar LSB10532, 'President Trump's Executive Actions on Student Loans, Wage Assistance, Payroll Taxes, and Evictions: Initial Takeaways.'"
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Isaacs, Katelin P., 1980-; Whittaker, Julie M.
2020-08-31
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COVID-19: Financial Relief and Assistance Resources for Consumers [April 23, 2020]
From the Document: "This CRS [Congressional Research Service] Insight presents links to websites of selected federal agencies and other organizations potentially relevant to consumers affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. These links provide information on mortgage and other consumer payment relief, credit score protection, and consumer-targeted frauds and scams."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Mullins, Maura; Teefy, Jennifer
2020-04-23
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COVID-19: Resources for Tracking Federal Spending [May 27, 2020]
From the Document: "Congress has responded to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with various legislation providing relief to individuals and families, state and local governments, businesses, health care providers, and other entities. This CRS [Congressional Research Service] Insight provides information on selected sources for tracking COVID-19 relief funding provided through these bills."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Teefy, Jennifer; Kreiser, Maria
2020-05-27
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USDA Rural Development and COVID-19: Supplemental Funding and Agency Actions [Updated June 1, 2020]
From the Document: "The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development agency (RD) administers loan, grant, and technical assistance programs that support infrastructure, housing, and business development in rural areas. In response to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, Congress provided supplemental funding to certain RD programs. In addition, RD has taken a number of actions to provide relief for current program participants and assist potential applicants in applying for program funding."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Casey, Alyssa R.
2020-06-01
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USDA Rural Development and COVID-19: Supplemental Funding and Agency Actions [May 15, 2020]
From the Document: "The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development agency (RD) administers loan, grant, and technical assistance programs that support infrastructure, housing, and business development in rural areas. In response to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, Congress provided supplemental funding to certain RD programs. In addition, RD has taken a number of actions to provide relief for current program participants and assist potential applicants in applying for program funding."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Casey, Alyssa R.
2020-05-15
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Unemployment Insurance: Legislative Issues in the 116th Congress [Updated July 23, 2020]
From the Summary: "Responding to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting economic recession, Congressional interest remains high in how to support workers and provide weekly income replacement for individuals who are unavailable to work or unemployed as a result of the pandemic. The 116th Congress has created several new temporary unemployment insurance (UI) benefits for workers unemployed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as temporarily modified permanent UI programs. Congress continues to consider additional modifications to both permanent law UI programs and the temporary new programs."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Whittaker, Julie M.; Isaacs, Katelin P., 1980-
2020-07-23
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Workplace Leave and Unemployment Insurance for Individuals Affected by COVID-19 [Updated March 16, 2020]
From the Document: "This Insight provides a brief overview of the current availability of job-connected assistance to individuals, which may be relevant to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Specifically, this product discusses workplace leave, paid and unpaid, that may be available to workers affected by the virus, as well as unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. It also discusses policy options to amend or expand existing UI programs to be more responsive to the effects of COVID-19."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Whittaker, Julie M.; Donovan, Sarah A.; Isaacs, Katelin P., 1980-
2020-03-16
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Workplace Leave and Unemployment Insurance for Individuals Affected by COVID-19 [March 6, 2020]
From the Document: "This Insight provides a brief overview of the current availability of job-connected assistance to individuals, which may be relevant to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Specifically, this product discusses workplace leave, paid and unpaid, that may be available to workers affected by the virus, as well as unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. It also discusses policy options to amend or expand existing UI programs to be more responsive to the effects of COVID-19."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Whittaker, Julie M.; Donovan, Sarah A.; Isaacs, Katelin P., 1980-
2020-03-06
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H.R. 6201: Paid Leave and Unemployment Insurance Responses to COVID-19 [Updated March 20, 2020]
From the Document: "This Insight provides summary information on the paid leave and unemployment insurance (UI) provisions in the House-passed version of H.R. 6201, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, including the technical corrections made by H.Res. 904."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Donovan, Sarah A.; Isaacs, Katelin P., 1980-; Whittaker, Julie M.
2020-03-20
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Unemployment Insurance Provisions in the CARES Act (H.R. 748, as Amended) [March 26, 2020]
From the Document: "This In Focus summarizes the Unemployment Insurance (UI) provisions in Title II, Subtitle A, of the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act, H.R. 748, as amended, and as passed by the Senate on March 25, 2020. It also provides a brief comparison with the UI provisions enacted in H.R. 6201/P.L. 116-127, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Isaacs, Katelin P., 1980-; Whittaker, Julie M.
2020-03-26
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Unemployment Insurance Provisions in the CARES Act [Updated April 9, 2020]
From the Document: "This In Focus summarizes the Unemployment Insurance (UI) provisions in Title II, Subtitle A, of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act; P.L. 116-136; enacted March 27, 2020). It also provides a brief comparison with the UI provisions enacted in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA; P.L. 116-127)."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Isaacs, Katelin P., 1980-; Whittaker, Julie M.
2020-04-09
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Managing Youth Sector Activities and Spaces During COVID-19
From the Forewords: "When young people have a sense of belonging our communities are stronger. Youth sector activities provide somewhere to go, something to do and someone to talk to. [...] The sector has faced significant challenges in response to COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. Much of the regular provision has stopped or adapted with reduced levels of activity, youth and community centres closed, residential trips cancelled. Therefore, NYA [National Youth Agency] has published this guidance on youth sector activities to ensure the safety of young people, youth leaders and volunteers through COVID-19 and its aftermath. It complements a readiness framework alongside a set of planning tools and resources co-produced with youth sector partners to help inform decision-making in support of local activities."
National Youth Agency (Great Britain)
2021-03
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Current Status of Unemployment Insurance (UI) Benefits: Permanent-Law Programs and COVID-19 Pandemic Response [February 17, 2021]
From the Summary: "The Unemployment Insurance (UI) system is constructed as a joint federal-state partnership, in which the Unemployment Compensation (UC) program and the UC benefit are the foundation of the UI system. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) provides oversight of state UC programs and the state administration of federal UI benefits. Although there are broad requirements under federal law regarding UC benefits and financing, the specifics are set out under each state's laws, resulting in 53 different UC programs operated in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. States operate their own UC programs and administer any temporary, federal UI benefits. A state UC program determines the weekly benefit amount and the number of weeks of UC available to unemployed workers. Most states provide up to 26 weeks of UC to eligible individuals who become involuntarily unemployed for economic reasons and meet state-established eligibility rules. The UI system's two main objectives are to provide temporary and partial wage replacement to involuntarily unemployed workers and to stabilize the economy during recessions. [...] In response to the recent recession caused by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Congress created several temporary UI programs through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (P.L. 116-136), and extended these programs through Division N, Title II, Subtitle A of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 116-260; the Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020, or 'Continued Assistance Act')."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Whittaker, Julie M.; Isaacs, Katelin P., 1980-
2021-02-17
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Resources for Tracking Federal COVID-19 Spending [Updated February 1, 2021]
From the Summary: "Congress has responded to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with supplemental appropriations measures providing relief and assistance to individuals and families, state and local governments, businesses, health care providers, and other entities. [...] This report provides selected sources for tracking COVID-19 relief and assistance spending. It includes links to and information on government sources detailing spending amounts at various levels, including consolidated spending by multiple government agencies, spending by individual government agencies, and spending to specific recipients and geographies. The sources themselves are large government databases, individual agencies, oversight entities, and selected nongovernmental entities that attempt to repackage information on spending amounts obtained from available government sources."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Kreiser, Maria; Teefy, Jennifer
2021-02-01
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Unemployment Insurance Provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 [Updated March 17, 2021]
From the Document: "The Unemployment Insurance (UI) provisions in Title IX, Subtitle A, of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA; P.L. [Public Law] 117-2; enacted March 11, 2021) make four significant changes to UI programs and benefits-- specifically, ARPA [1] reauthorizes and expands the enhanced UI benefits created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act; P.L. 116-136, enacted March 27, 2020) and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (P.L. 116-260, enacted December 27, 2020; the UI provisions are titled the Continued Assistance for Unemployed Workers Act of 2020 [Continued Assistance Act]); [2] extends the authorization for additional, temporary UI provisions first authorized under the CARES Act and the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA; P.L. 116-127, enacted March 18, 2020) and extended under the Continued Assistance Act; [3] authorizes a federal income tax exclusion of up to $10,200 in UI benefits in 2020 for taxpayers with modified adjusted gross income (AGI) of less than $150,000; and [4] provides two sources of additional UI administrative funding: (1) $2 billion to U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for federal and state administration of UI benefits, including for fraud prevention and benefit processing purposes; and (2) $8 million to DOL for federal activities related to UI programs."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Isaacs, Katelin P., 1980-; Whittaker, Julie M.
2021-03-17
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Energy Security and the Energy Transition: A Classic Framework for a New Challenge
From the Document: "The Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic capped a series of events that made 2020 one of the most disruptive years in the annals of the energy industry, affecting markets, prices and livelihoods. The 'Middle East, Asia and Energy Security in the Age of Covid-19' series of 'Insights' looks at some of these developments and their impacts, including the astonishingly rapid emergence of the United States as the world's leading oil and gas producer, the increasingly dire outlook for the member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the role of Asia in resuscitating global oil and gas demand and the increasingly important role of China, among the world's largest importers of oil and gas, in Middle East affairs. [...] Policymakers around the world are struggling to understand the security implications of an energy system in transition. New energy forms can help reduce vulnerability to oil supply disruptions, such as the one that arose from the September 2019 attacks on Saudi facilities. But they also have the potential to introduce new vulnerabilities and risks. Furthermore, the Covid-19 pandemic and the energy impact of government stimulus measures threaten to upend global energy systems and relationships. Many countries have built robust systems to mitigate risks to oil supplies, but little work has been done for other energy forms. This paper utilises a framework for assessing energy security based on evaluation of vulnerability, risk and offsets."
National University of Singapore. Middle East Institute.
Finley, Mark, 1945-
2021-02-09
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Early Insights and Recommendations for Implementing a Covid-19 Antigen Testing Program in K-12 Schools: Lessons Learned from Six Pilot Sites
From the Introduction: "The Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic required many students across the United States to begin the 2020 school year online. Experts estimate the impact on students' learning to be significant, with long-term learning losses potentially shaping children's educations for years to come and disproportionately disadvantaging poor students and students of color (Dorn et al. 2020). A lack of in-person schooling also limits many students' access to critical resources such as food, health services, and opportunities for socialization, and puts severe strain on working parents (Hoffman and Miller 2020). It is thus critical to identify strategies to keep schools open in a safe way that minimizes the risk of outbreaks. With this goal in mind, The Rockefeller Foundation has partnered with Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy (DM), Johns Hopkins University (JHU), and schools in six sites to pilot the implementation of Covid-19 testing in schools based on their Risk Assessment and Testing Protocols for Reducing SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] Transmission in selected K-12 [kindergarten through 12th grade] schools. [...] This report discusses early learnings and recommendations generated by pilot sites in their first four months of planning and implementing testing programs, based on a review of sites' documentation, key informant interviews, and initial planning and data collection to support statistical modeling."
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Rowan, Patricia; Vohra, Divya; Goyal, Ravi . . .
2021-01
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Year of COVID-19: The Pandemic's Impact on Global Conflict and Demonstration Trends
From the Introduction: "March 2021 marks the first anniversary of the declaration of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). One year on, this report explores ACLED's [Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project's] special coverage of the pandemic's impact on political violence and protest trends around the world - analyzing changes in demonstration activity, state repression, mob attacks, overall rates of armed conflict, and more through the 'COVID-19 Disorder Tracker' [hyperlink]. Earlier in the project we took stock of evolving political violence and protest patterns during the first 16 weeks of the crisis '(see this ACLED report)' [hyperlink], and again after more than five months had passed '(see this analysis for Foreign Policy)' [hyperlink]. This report draws on a full year of data and analysis from ACLED's 'COVID-19 Disorder Tracker' [hyperlink] to trace the pandemic's wider effects on global disorder trends."
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project
Kishi, Roudabeh
2021-04
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Depot Maintenance: DOD Should Improve Pandemic Plans and Publish Working Capital Fund Policy, Report to Congressional Committees
From the Highlights: "Pandemics such as COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] can impact the productivity of critical DOD depots that maintain weapon systems if essential personnel are unable to report for work. Navy and Air Force WCFs [Working Capital Funds] must also maintain cash balances sufficient for the activities they support, including the eight depots operated by the Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force, to sustain readiness. GAO [Government Accountability Office] was asked to assess the effects of COVID-19 on WCF and depot operations as part of its CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act oversight. This report (1) describes how COVID-19 impacted Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force depot productivity; (2) examines the extent to which depot actions in response to COVID-19 addressed key practices to support the workforce, continue operations, and improve crisis response; and (3) examines the extent to which WCF cash management policy ensured financial solvency and reflected current guidance. GAO reviewed DOD guidance, depot revenue data for fiscal year 2020, and documents related to the impact of COVID-19 on productivity and WCF solvency; and interviewed depot and financial management officials."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2021-04
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Falsehoods and the Patois of Pandemics-- A Playbook
From the Document: "Dr. Richard Goodman did more than just help cobble together the lectures of Brachman and others lectures for the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] 'Manual's' first edition. He also felt strongly that there needed to be a chapter on the law. 'We had a public health corps that was using powerful legal authorities but [was] never trained in the law,' Goodman told us. 'We wanted to remedy that.' Goodman actually went to law school part time so he could better understand the legal authorities public health officials could wield. Students of American constitutional law will be quite familiar with the patchwork of authorities cited in the 'Manual'. The government's power to protect public health and safety is shared by federal and state authorities. At the federal level, Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution grants Congress the power to provide for the 'general Welfare of the United States,' and the Commerce Clause allows for the oversight of health-related activities for public safety. Legislation must fit under the enumerated powers and not run afoul of the Bill of Rights, as understood and interpreted by the Supreme Court. To communicate or enforce its powers, the federal and state governments can use statues, regulations, proclamations, press conferences, and executive orders. Or, what has been the latest form of communications--social media. As has been evident during the current COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, the 'police power' of the state, which may be exercisable by a governor, is 'extensive.'"
McGeorge School of Law; Georgetown University. Law Center; Syracuse University. Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism
Temple-Raston, Dina; Rishikof, Harvey
2020
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'Confronting the Coronavirus: Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic One Year Later', Testimony of Crystal R. Watson Before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Homeland Security, One Hundred and Seventeenth Congress, First Session, February 24th, 2021
This is from the February 24, 2021 testimony of Crystal R. Watson on "Confronting the Coronavirus: Perspectives on the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Pandemic One Year Later," before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Homeland Security. From the testimony: "I am a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The opinions expressed herein are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Johns Hopkins University. Today, I will provide comments on the status of the COVID-19 pandemic and the US government's response efforts to date, as well as the major successes and failures of the last year, and what we should look forward to, and prepare for in the coming weeks and months."
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security
Watson, Crystal R.
2021-02-24
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Decline in Trust in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention During the COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Webpage: "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a federal agency tasked with protecting public health and safety. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presented the CDC with a challenge that was initially met with technical problems in the development of testing kits (Patel, 2020), mixed messaging about the pandemic and mitigation strategies (Schnirring, 2020), and extended public commentary and interference by the Trump administration (Weiland, 2021). As vaccine dissemination campaigns ramp up, trust in the vaccines themselves and in public health procedures more broadly may pose a significant challenge to effectively combating the pandemic--particularly among groups that have had general medical mistrust stemming from historical experience, such as among people of color (Bogart, Takada, and Cunningham, 2020; Bogart et al., 2021). This report examines changes in levels of trust in the CDC between May and October 2020 in light of these concerns."
RAND Corporation
Pollard, Michael S.; Davis, Lois M.
2021
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MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 9, 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: "Use of Real-Time PCR for 'Chlamydia psittaci' Detection in Human Specimens During an Outbreak of Psittacosis - Georgia and Virginia, 2018"; "COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality Among American Indian/Alaska Native and White Persons - Montana, March 13-November 30, 2020"; "Use of Stay-at-Home Orders and Mask Mandates to Control COVID-19 Transmission - Blackfeet Tribal Reservation, Montana, June-December 2020"; "Provisional Mortality Data - United States, 2020"; "Death Certificate-Based ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes for COVID-19 Mortality
Surveillance - United States, January-December 2020"; "Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Associated with a Local Bar Opening Event - Illinois, February 2021"; "COVID-19 Stats: College and University COVID-19 Student Testing Protocols, by Mode of Instruction§ (N = 1,849) - United States, Spring 2021"; and "QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Had an Influenza Vaccination in the Past 12 Months, by Sex and Race/Ethnicity§ -National Health Interview Survey, United States, 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.)
McGovern, Olivia L.; Kobayashi, Miwako; Shaw, Kelly A. . . .
2021-04-09
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Incentivizing COVID-19 Vaccine Developers to Expand Manufacturing Capacity
From the Document: "Safe and efficacious vaccines are our best tools for defeating COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019], and an unprecedented research and development effort has led to 12 vaccines being approved for full, emergency, or limited use, globally. But to vaccinate the global population as quickly as possible requires additional production capacity. The available global production capacity may be sufficient in aggregate across all vaccine manufacturing platforms over an 18- to 24-month window. However, the total manufacturing capacity is insufficient for accelerated immunization across countries globally in the short-term (e.g., next six months) and is not sufficient in a disaggregate sense, i.e., for each individual vaccine type. There is a need to expand the manufacturing capacity for COVID-19 vaccines. There is continuing debate about how to create sufficient capacity of specific vaccine platforms such as mRNA [messenger ribonucleic acid] which some argue are more versatile for future preparedness efforts (Moore and Offit 2021, Wilfredo et al. 2021). Castillo et al. (2021) estimate that installed capacity for 3 billion annual vaccine courses leads to a global benefit of $17.4 trillion, making it vital from both a health and an economic perspective to build sufficient manufacturing capacity for COVID-19 vaccines."
Center for Global Development
Kazaz, Burak; Webster, Scott; Yadav, Prashant
2021-03
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Examining the National Response to the Worsening Coronavirus Pandemic: Part II, Hearing Before the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, Second Session, July 22, 2020
This is the July 22, 2020 hearing on "Examining the National Response to the Worsening Coronavirus Pandemic: Part II," held before the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives.
From the Document: "Today the Committee on Homeland Security is meeting for Part II of our hearing to examine the National response to the worsening coronavirus pandemic. Two weeks ago, the committee heard from the State and local officials about how the Trump administration's failure to respond to the pandemic has harmed their communities and our Nation. [...] Nations around the world, like Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea, and many in Europe have managed to bring their outbreaks under control through coordinated responses, consistent messaging, and measures, such as face coverings, testing, and contact tracing. But here at home the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus has been an abject failure, and the American people have suffered the consequences. The President's gross incompetence and incoherent plan to respond to the pandemic has cost lives. [...] We need real leadership at the Federal level if our country is to overcome the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic and prevent more lives from being lost needlessly. Administrator Gaynor and his agency have a Herculean task ahead in many ways, made all the difficult by the President himself."
Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Peter T. Gaynor.
United States. Government Publishing Office
2021
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MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 14, 2021: Laboratory Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 Exposure Reduction Through Physically Distanced Seating in Aircraft Cabins Using Bacteriophage Aerosol -- November 2020
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 early release issue of MMWR contains the following article: "Laboratory Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 Exposure Reduction Through Physically Distanced Seating in Aircraft Cabins Using Bacteriophage Aerosol -- November 2020." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from MMWR can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2021-04-14
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Social Protection During the Pandemic: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico
From the Document: "The novel coronavirus has hit Latin America very hard. On the health front, two indicators stand out: with only 8.2 percent of the world population (640 million people), by October 2020 the Latin American and Caribbean region had 28 percent of all cases (9.3 million) and 34 percent of all deaths (341,000). On the economic front, the IMF [International Monetary Fund] projected that Latin American economies would contract by 8.1 percent in 2020 in its October 2020 forecasts. The pandemic, people's response to fend off contagion, and the measures designed to contain the spread of the virus took an enormous toll on the region's living standards. [...] There is massive variation in the governments' social protection responses in terms of speed, breadth, and sufficiency. Drawing from Blofield, Giambruno, and Filgueira (2020) and Lustig et al. (2020), we describe the policy responses in social protection and to what extent these measures have potentially mitigated the impact of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] on inequality and poverty in the region's four largest countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico."
Center for Global Development
Blofield, Merike.; Lustig, Nora; Trasberg, Mart
2021-02
