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Lessons Learned: The Federal Reserve's Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic, Hearing Before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, First Session, June 22, 2021
This is the June 22, 2021 hearing on "Lessons Learned: The Federal Reserve's Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic," held before the House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis of the Committee on Oversight and Reform. From the opening statement of James E. Clyburn: "Today's hearing will examine the Fed's [Federal Reserve System] response to the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the current state of the recovery, and what steps we must take to ensure a strong, sustainable, and equitable economic future. [...] Congress is working hard crafting legislation to enact the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan so that we will build back better in our recovery from the pandemic. I look forward to hearing from Chair Powell about what else we can do to ensure that our country's economic policy is effective, efficient, and equitable." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Jerome Powell.
United States. Government Publishing Office
2021
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MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, October 8, 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: "HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Awareness and Referral to Providers Among Hispanic/Latino Persons -- United States, 2019"; "Prevalence of Arthritis and Arthritis-Attributable Activity Limitation -- United States, 2016-2018"; "Walking and Other Common Physical Activities Among Adults with Arthritis -- United States, 2019"; "Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] Variants in a Large Integrated Health Care System -- California, March-July 2021"; "Multicomponent Strategies to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Transmission -- Nine Overnight Youth Summer Camps, United States, June-August 2021"; "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Outbreaks at Youth Summer Camps -- Louisiana, June-July 2021"; "National and State Trends in Anxiety and Depression Severity Scores Among Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic -- United States, 2020-2021"; and "QuickStats: Percentage of Women Aged 25-44 Years Who Had Ever Used Infertility Services, by Type of Service -- National Survey of Family Growth, United States, 2006-2010 and 2015-2019." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2021-10-08
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Assessing SARS-CoV-2 Circulation, Variants of Concern, Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Vaccine Rollout in the EU/EEA, 16th Update
From the Summary: "Since its emergence in March 2021, the B.1.617.2 (Delta) variant of concern (VOC) has rapidly become predominant across the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA). More than 99% of newly reported cases are attributed to this variant. The Delta variant has demonstrated a significant transmission advantage relative to previously circulating SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] strains. However, full vaccination remains protective against severe outcomes such as hospitalisation, admission to intensive care and death. Currently available vaccines have played a crucial role in limiting viral circulation and in particular, limiting the impact of infections by the Delta variant. Despite the fact that over 565 million vaccine doses have been administered in the EU/EEA so far, only 61.1% (range: 18.4-79.4%) of the total population in the EU/EEA have been fully vaccinated to date. The total population includes children and adolescents for whom the vaccine is not available or who may not be included in national target groups yet. There is considerable inter-country and sub-national variation in vaccine uptake, resulting in large proportions of the EU/EEA population remaining susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Modelling scenarios that consider vaccination coverage, vaccine effectiveness, natural immunity and population contact rates--in the context of continued Delta circulation--indicate that the potential burden of disease risk in the EU/EEA from the Delta variant is high between now to the end of November, unless vaccination coverage can be increased rapidly in the total population in the next few weeks."
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
2021-09-30
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Military's COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate [September 28, 2021]
From the Document: "Since the onset of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Members of Congress have expressed interest in Force Health Protection [hyperlink] (FHP) measures the Department of Defense (DOD) might implement to protect servicemembers and mitigate pandemic-related threats to military operations. DOD has implemented a variety of conditions-based FHP measures [hyperlink] that mirror the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommended protective measures [hyperlink], to limit the spread of COVID-19 among military personnel. On August 9, 2021, the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) issued a Message to the Force [hyperlink] indicating his intent to require COVID-19 vaccination for servicemembers 'no later than mid-September, or immediately upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensure [of a COVID-19 vaccine], whichever comes first.[...] This Insight summarizes the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for servicemembers and offers considerations for Congress as the MILDEPs [Military Departments] implement the mandate."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Mendez, Bryce H. P.
2021-09-28
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Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges -- Finding Solutions, Workshop Summary
"Early detection is essential to the control of emerging, reemerging, and novel infectious diseases, including agents of bioterrorism. Containing the spread of such a disease in a profoundly interconnected world requires active vigilance for signs of an outbreak, rapid recognition of its presence, and diagnosis of its microbial cause, as well as strategies and resources for an appropriate and efficient response."
National Academies Press (U.S.)
Hamburg, Margaret A.; Lemon, Stanley M.; Sparling, P. Frederick . . .
2007
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Pandemic Privacy: A Preliminary Analysis of Collection Technologies, Data Collection Laws, and Legislative Reform During COVID-19
From the Executive Summary: "In, 'Pandemic Privacy: A preliminary analysis of collection technologies, data collection laws, and legislative reform during COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019],' we undertake a preliminary comparative analysis of how different information technologies were mobilized in response to COVID-19 to collect data, the extent to which Canadian health or privacy or emergencies laws impeded the response to COVID-19, and ultimately, the potential consequences of reforming data protection or privacy laws to enable more expansive data collection, use, or disclosure of personal information in future health emergencies. [...] After a short introduction in Section one, we present the methodologies we used in Section two. Section three turns to how contemporary digital technologies were used to collect data in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Our principal finding is that collection efforts were constrained by the ways in which private companies chose to enable data collection, particularly in the case of contact tracing and exposure notifications, and by how these companies choose to share data that was under their control and how data was repurposed for assisting in containing COVID-19. The breadth and extent of data collection was unprecedented when compared to past health crises."
University of Toronto. Citizen Lab; Munk School of Global Affairs
Parsons, Christopher; Ballard, Benjamin; Cutinha, Amanda
2021-09-28
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Bargaining Over Workplace Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This document from UNISON, the United Kingdom's (UK) largest public service trade union, provides workplace guidance relating to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the UK. Topics include: working from home, absence due to illness or care-taking responsibilities, mental health issues, hygiene, etc. The document is updated on a regular basis.
UNISON (Organization)
2021-09-30
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Ensuring Safe Elections: Federal Funding Needs for State and Local Governments During the Pandemic
From the Document: "On March 27, President Trump signed into law a $2 trillion economic relief package that included $400 million in grants to help states run their elections during the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. This was an important first step. Unfortunately, we now know this is not enough. In this document we examine the difference between the March 27 federal investment in the electoral process and what will be needed to ensure safe and healthy elections for 2020. We focus on Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. These five states have diverging election administration systems and needs, from the number of elections each will hold this cycle to their requirements for absentee voting. Two common themes stand out. First, what Congress has provided so far is not enough to run safe and secure elections in 2020. Our review shows that the March 27 grants will likely cover anywhere from less than 10 percent of what Georgia officials need to around 18 percent of what Ohio officials need. Second, local election jurisdictions bear the heaviest burden of protecting voters and workers during the election. In two of the states we examined, local governments must cover over 90 percent of the costs needed to ensure safe and secure elections this year. In all five states, they will bear the overwhelming share of such expenses."
Brennan Center for Justice
Deluzio, Christopher R.; Howard, Elizabeth; Levine, David A. . . .
2020-04-30
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COVID-19 and Budgetary Space for Health in Developing Economies
From the Document: "The sizeable economic and health consequences of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] are clear as the pandemic spreads, translating into additional burden on health systems not just now but for years to come. But given cratering revenues and the long shadow of COVID-19 on discretionary public expenditure, what will be the budgetary space for spend on healthcare? In this note we outline the potential shortfalls in domestic health spending in developing economies over the coming years, discuss potential options, and offer one immediate action: the need to protect and expand essential spend on health during crisis and beyond."
Center for Global Development
Gheorghe, Adrian; Chalkidou, Kalipso; Glassman, Amanda, 1970- . . .
2020-07
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2019 Global Health Security Index: Building Collective Action and Accountability
From the Executive Summary: "Biological threats--natural, intentional, or accidental--in any country can pose risks to global health, international security, and the worldwide economy. Because infectious diseases know no borders, all countries must prioritize and exercise the capabilities required to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to public health emergencies. Every country also must be transparent about its capabilities to assure neighbors it can stop an outbreak from becoming an international catastrophe. In turn, global leaders and international organizations bear a collective responsibility for developing and maintaining robust global capability to counter infectious disease threats. This capability includes ensuring that financing is available to fill gaps in epidemic and pandemic preparedness. These steps will save lives and achieve a safer and more secure world. [...] The GHS [Global Health Security] Index is intended to be a key resource in the face of increasing risks of high-consequence and globally catastrophic biological events and in light of major gaps in international financing for preparedness. These risks are magnified by a rapidly changing and interconnected world; increasing political instability; urbanization; climate change; and rapid technology advances that make it easier, cheaper, and faster to create and engineer pathogens."
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Nuclear Threat Initiative; Economist Intelligence Unit (New York, N.Y.)
Cameron, Elizabeth E.; Nuzzo, Jennifer B.; Bell, Jessica A. . . .
2019-10
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Ensuring Safe Elections: Federal Funding Needs for Sate and Local Governments During the Pandemic
From the Document: "The coronavirus pandemic has changed voting behavior and poses an extraordinary challenge to state and local officials as they seek to ensure that elections in 2020 are fair, safe, and secure. As national policymakers consider how people should vote in light of the pandemic, elections themselves have already changed. Millions of voters are requesting mail ballots, far more than would have been the case otherwise. Many fewer are updating their registrations at government offices. Instead, they register online or find other ways to sign up. Governments face the unforeseen cost of investing in personal protective equipment (PPE) and sanitation supplies to reduce the risk of illness and even death to their workers and voters. Even if no rules change, the 2020 election will be costly."
Brennan Center for Justice; R Street Institute; University of Pittsburgh. Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security . . .
Deluzio, Christopher R.; Howard, Elizabeth; Levine, David A. . . .
2020-04-30
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COVID-19: A Frontline Guide for Local Decision-Makers
From the Document: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic is creating significant disruption to daily life in cities and communities around the world. This guide provides an initial strategic framework for local leaders as they begin planning what will need to be done to reduce the impact of the outbreak in the near term. The guide focuses both on slowing and suppressing the spread of the virus, and also on supporting community needs. This document is informed by existing guidance from U.S. and global authorities, public health research findings, and lessons observed from countries that have been battling COVID-19 since January 2020. It is intended to complement, but not supplant, advice and guidance from global, federal and local public health and other authorities."
COVID Local
Cameron, Elizabeth E.; Bell, Jessica A.; Eckles, Jacob H. . . .
2020?
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Influenza Vaccination During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Planning and Delivering Vaccination Programs to Protect the Most Vulnerable People
From the Introduction: "'This report aims to support policymakers, health service planners and other key stakeholders in the planning and delivery of the 2021/22 flu vaccination program.' We first describe the unique challenges to preventing flu during the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic and define priority groups for vaccination. Based on our review of peer-reviewed and gray literature, we then present four policy priorities for addressing those challenges so that the most vulnerable people in our society are protected from flu during the 2021/22 season."
Health Policy Partnership; International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations
Morris, Taylor; Tate, Jody
2021-09
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COVID Constituency: Emerging Priorities for Education Leaders
From the Executive Summary: "Americans care deeply about education issues. Their shared experiences during the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic have heightened their sensitivity to the shortcomings of the education system and have fostered a vision for change. The COVID Constituency, comprising a growing movement of parents, teachers, students, education leaders, and organizations, desires systemic changes in education, rather than a reversion back to our pre-pandemic system. As state and district policymakers consider how they want to use their federal dollars for education transformation, it is imperative that they tap into the experiences and priorities of the communities that have the most at stake. An in-depth analysis of national polls since the start of the pandemic reveals the top concerns for education stakeholders: learning loss, low quality curricula, and lack of support for underserved students. Additional concerns in the early childhood and higher education sectors indicate that the COVID Constituency spans the education continuum."
James B Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy
Wise, Bob; Siddiqi, Javaid
2021-09
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Home Learning Experiences Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Executive Summary: "In this report, we [...] examine how the learning experiences of English school children evolved over the course of the first 12 months of disruption, from the beginning of the first lockdown in March 2020 until the end of the second period of school closures in March 2021. We consider learning experiences during both periods of nationwide school closures as well as during the 2020 autumn term - when schools were open but periodically disrupted. Specifically, we look at how learning time changed between the closures, the extent of self-isolation during the autumn, and the nature of school remote learning provisions throughout. We also examine how inequalities between richer and poorer pupils evolved over the course of the pandemic, and what this implies about catch-up policies in the future."
Institute for Fiscal Studies (Great Britain)
Cattan, Sarah; Farquharson, Christine; Krutikova, Sonya . . .
2021-09
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Cyberattacks, Foreign Interference, and Digital Infrastructure: Conducting Secure Elections Amid a Pandemic
From the Introduction: "The coronavirus pandemic has introduced an additional layer of complexity into the already challenging task of conducting secure, democratic elections. Prior to the pandemic, many democracies were working to secure their elections from foreign adversaries, often with limited budgets. These challenges have only 'grown more acute' [hyperlink] because of the pandemic. Since the coronavirus arrived, much attention has, correctly, been focused on how to administer elections in a manner that reduces the likelihood of voters and pollworkers contracting the virus. However, after reviewing many elections held in Europe and the United States (hereafter referred to as the transatlantic region), including several during the pandemic, we believe that more can and should be done to secure human, physical, and cyber election assets. Both the pandemic and foreign interference threats show no signs of abating; meanwhile the pandemic creates further windows of opportunity for authoritarian regimes to interfere in elections. This paper is not directed at any one specific country or election. Instead, it seeks to help democratic actors, particularly those in the transatlantic region, conduct more secure elections during these unprecedented times."
German Marshall Fund of the United States. Alliance for Securing Democracy; International Foundation for Electoral Systems
Levine, David A.; Martin-Rozumilowicz, Beata
2020-10-08
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New Multilateral Financing Mechanism for Global Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness
From the Overview and Context: "Health experts around the world have warned for years that countries, regional bodies, and global institutions must invest more in critical capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats -- and the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic lays bare how the current global health architecture was not prepared to prevent or respond with the necessary speed and force when the threat emerged. [...] Given this clear and present threat, multiple recent reports from an array of leading global health and finance experts have concluded that the world needs a new multilateral financing mechanism, or Fund, for global health security and pandemic preparedness. [...] In short, there is a broad consensus that urgent action is needed to mobilize significant new resources for global health security and pandemic preparedness through a new multilateral financing mechanism or Fund."
Pandemic Action Network
Glassman, Amanda, 1970-; Reynolds, Carolyn; Carson, Courtney . . .
2021-08
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Examining the COVID-19 Response in Native Communities: Native Tourism Economies One Year Later, Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, First Session, May 12, 2021
This is the May 12, 2021 hearing on "Examining the COVID-19 Response in Native Communities: Native Tourism Economies One Year Later," held before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. From the opening statement of Brian Schatz: "Today's oversight hearing, the third in this Committee's COVID- 19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Response series, will focus on the pandemic's impact on Native tourism economies. Native communities across the Country have diversified their economies with domestic and international tourism to create jobs for community members, boost tribal government revenue, and improve living conditions. But after COVID-19 hit, many Native communities imposed lockdowns and closed their borders and businesses to outside visitors. The temporary closure of tribal businesses, including tourism-driven enterprises, disrupted a major revenue source for funding tribal government services, and caused a ripple effect through adjacent non-Native communities, many of which rely on tribal enterprise to boost their own economies. Congress responded by providing funding through the American Rescue Plan act to help Native communities rebuild their economies. This included $20 billion in recovery funds and additional funding for programs like the EDA [U.S. Economic Development Administration] grants for tourism. Yes, help is here, but many Native communities need particular resources to regroup, revitalize and expand their own tourism economies. [...] I look forward to hearing from the Administration and Native tourism experts on these impacts and the Federal resources and infrastructure needed to get Native tourism economies back on track." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Dennis Alvord, John De Fries, Russell Dick, Anthony Rodman, and Sherry Rupert.
United States. Government Publishing Office
2021
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Oversight of Pandemic Evictions: Assessing Abuses by Corporate Landlords and Federal Efforts to Keep Americans in Their Homes, Hearing Before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, First Session, July 27, 2021
This is the July 27, 2021 hearing on "Oversight of Pandemic Evictions: Assessing Abuses by Corporate Landlords and Federal Efforts to Keep Americans in Their Homes," held before the House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis of the Committee on Oversight and Reform. From the opening statement of James E. Clyburn: "We are here today to discuss an issue of utmost importance: ensuring that the coronavirus pandemic, which has already resulted in a loss of life for more than 600,000 Americans, does not result in the loss of stable homes for millions more. As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the Nation, millions of Americans lost their jobs and faced significant challenges making ends meet. For these Americans, one of the most pressing challenges has been ensuring that the loss of a job does not also mean the loss of a roof over their families' heads. [...] As Americans continue to get vaccinated and our economy continues to improve, we must work together to prevent the pandemic from precipitating an eviction crisis. Congress has already taken action to ensure that American families are not evicted from their homes. We must ensure that the law is followed and the rental assistance funds that Congress provided are accessible to all who need them." Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Jim Baker, Katrina Chism, Diane Yentel, Rene Solis, and Joel Griffith.
United States. Government Publishing Office
2021
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COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Introduction: "The 2021 Annual Report will focus on the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic and its implications for life expectancy, with a definite emphasis on the UK situation but without losing sight of the global picture. The aim is to condense a variety of useful, unbiased information into one convenient reference guide that the target audience may use to better understand and navigate their responsibilities in a domain of great uncertainty. The Report will firstly provide an overview of the current state of the pandemic, with a focus on the UK situation within the global context. We will then summarise the development and deployment of vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, and the behavioural insights we gained from the social change brought on by the pandemic. We will devote one chapter to the economic fallout of the pandemic in the UK and its effect on pre-existing social inequalities. One chapter will focus on how COVID-19 has affected the NHS and the social care system. Lastly, we will summarise the development and adoption of new technologies in healthcare in the wake of the pandemic."
Longevity Science Panel
Dunnell, Karen; Blakemore, Colin; Haberman, Steven, 1951- . . .
2021-10
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Brain Injury Survivors: Survey Report 2021
From the Summary: "In the winter of 2021, Brain Injury Canada launched a survey for brain injury survivors. The purpose of the survey was to: [1] Check in with individuals one year into the pandemic to learn about how they had been coping[;] [2] Determine if there had been any challenges experienced as a result of the pandemic with respect to accessing services[;] [3] Assess which programs and/or supports had been beneficial throughout the past year[; and] [4] Identify key recommendations for actions that could be taken to ensure future support for brain injury survivors across Canada[.]"
Brain Injury Canada
2021
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Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 Rapid Evidence Review - Education, Childcare and Social Work and Related Social Care Workforce
From the Summary: "The Institute for Employment Research (IER) was commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to undertake a rapid evidence review of the impact of COVID-19 [coronavirus diease 2019] on the education, childcare and social workers and other relevant parts of the social care workforce. The objective of the review is to understand the short- and long-term impacts on these occupational groups and how these can be mitigated to minimize the negative impact of the pandemic."
University of Warwick. Institute for Employment Research
Atfield, Gaby; Baldauf, Beate; Kispeter, Erika
2021-09
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FLETC's Actions to Respond to and Manage COVID-19 at Its Glynco Training Center
From the Highlights: "After temporarily closing in March 2020 due to COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019], FLETC [Federal Law Enforcement Training Center] reopened its facilities in June 2020 with 'reengineered training programs' designed to mitigate the risks associated with COVID-19. We conducted a review to determine actions the Glynco training center has taken to prevent and mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among staff and students."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General
2021-09-30
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Unintended Health Consequences of Lockdown
From the Document: "The current COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has caused a flurry of new guidelines and mandates in order to minimize cases and deaths from the disease. These policies have been in place for up to nine months so far in many areas, causing economic, social, and psychological distress of a type most living people haven't before experienced. This raises the question, at what point do policies designed to prevent death from disease become deadly themselves? In other words, how do we respond to a deadly disease without causing even more harm? The World Health Organization and United Nations agree that this will not be our last global pandemic, and we need to be prepared for the next one. The successful- and unsuccessful-aspects of our response to COVID-19 should inform how policymakers address future pandemics. The most visible and intrusive policy responses to COVID-19 have been mandatory stay-at-home orders and orders limiting gatherings in businesses, homes, places of worship, and outdoor settings. These policies have colloquially been referred to as lockdowns. Unless we are able to get more and better data on the consequences of mandatory lockdowns, we will be no further in the next pandemic toward optimal policies. In this paper, we review the impacts of the COVID-19 lockdowns in the US, and we find that a'health localism' approach is a best practice to guide lockdown policies in the event of future pandemics."
George Mason University. Center for the Study of the Administrative State
Williams, Richard A.; Ghani, Kathryn
2021-02-01
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Solving the COVID-19 Vaccine Product Liability Problem
From the Abstract: "Risks of legal liabilities, particularly product liability for severe side effects, will serve as an important, if not decisive, factor in how vaccine manufacturers participate in the response with emergency use authorized and recently licensed COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] vaccines. If they do not receive sufficient assurance against legal liability, especially product liability, they will not ship vaccines. There is limited experience with developing coronavirus vaccines, and severe side effects following immunization are inevitable, as evidence from Phase III trials and early administration of EUA [Emergency Use Authorization] vaccines strongly suggests. Therefore, there is a critical need to balance the risk calculations of manufacturers with the justice for immunization recipients who become seriously ill or die in order to contribute to herd immunity in the community. This article outlines the components of a global no-fault liability, indemnification, and compensation system which includes leveraging current no-fault systems in 25 countries; a World Health Organization insurance mechanism, and a combination of insurance and compensation fund construction based on claims processing precedents from the Deep Horizon Oil Spill and Boeing 737 Max crashes, both of which had claims originating from dozens of countries, tens of thousands of claims, processed in at least 6 languages. This system will be essential for vaccine manufacturer response and to address vaccine hesitancy and injury in populations across the globe."
George Mason University. Center for the Study of the Administrative State
Halabi, Sam F.
2021-02-01?
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We Need a Vaccine: Proposals for Regulating Innovation in a Pandemic
From the Introduction: "As of mid-January 2021, two COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] vaccines had been approved (Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna) for widespread use in the United States and another three are in large-scale, Phase 3 clinical trials (AstraZeneca, Janssen, and Novavax). [...] Against this backdrop of breathtaking invention and innovation in the fight against the COVID-19 virus is another story - that of the war on intellectual property. Although this battle is not new, the pandemic has provided additional narratives of entry. Ranging from calls for innovators to either 'voluntarily' forgo obtaining or exercising their legal patent rights on COVID-19 technology to calls for governments to simply take the rights to these patented inventions without permission, it is clear that intellectual property is under attack. Because these calls are coming from powerful groups such as Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres/MSF) to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to a novel organization known as the Open COVID Pledge, a group now stewarded by Creative Commons and naming IBM [International Business Machines], Amazon, and Microsoft among its founding pledgors, it is difficult to not feel pushback against innovators' legally-obtained rights."
George Mason University. Center for the Study of the Administrative State
Osenga, Kristen
2021-02-25
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Mind Over Matter: Strategies to Combat the Coronavirus Blues, A Resource Guide
From the About: "[This is a] catalog of links to information and graphics aimed at college and university campus communities. The goal of this guide is to provide ideas for students, faculty, staff and administrators to help manage the challenges of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] during school, work and daily life. [...] [We are a] joint COVID-19 Schools Task Force, made up of staff from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) offices in Kansas City, Missouri. The focus of the task force since its inception in July 2020, has been to provide information to colleges and universities that will improve individual preparedness and general well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] In the late fall of 2020, we noticed an increasing trend in mental health fatigue across the country associated with the pandemic, including at colleges and universities. So we aimed to collect a variety of strategies to help combat that fatigue and promote general wellness that can be used right now during the pandemic, and carried forward into the future. [...] The information [in this guide] is themed into 6 categories: [1] 'Top Guns' (Tools for Faculty and Leadership); [2] 'Why These Feelings?' (How to Manage a Gamut of Emotions); [3] 'Takin' a Break' (Fun Things to Do During the Pandemic); [4] 'Lullaby and Goodnight' (Tips for Better ZZZs); [5] 'Stomping Stress' (Surviving and Thriving thru Adversity); [and 6] 'Getting your Groove Back' (Winning @ Wellness)[.]"
United States. Department of Health and Human Services; United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2021-09
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White House Report: Vaccination Requirements Are Helping Vaccinate More People, Protect Americans from COVID-19, and Strengthen the Economy
From the Executive Summary: "Since January, the Biden-Harris Administration has taken aggressive actions to make vaccinations free and convenient, executed a robust campaign to educate Americans about the importance of getting vaccinated, and deployed hundreds of millions of dollars in resources for states, localities, Tribes, and community organizations to encourage vaccinations. These efforts have led to tremendous success. At the start of the year, only 34% of adult Americans were eager to get vaccinated. Today, 78% of adults have at least their first shot. Overall, more than 185 million Americans are fully vaccinated--up from just 2 million when the President took office. [...] This is significant progress, but after months of education and incentives, additional actions needed to be taken in order to reach the tens of millions of people who remained unvaccinated. The strain on our hospital systems, our economy, and the risk to our children was too great not to use every tool available. To that end, last month, the President laid out a six-part plan to accelerate our path out of the pandemic. Central to that plan is getting remaining Americans vaccinated, and to do so, the President announced vaccination requirements that in total will cover approximately 100 million people. As this report demonstrates, it is clear that vaccination requirements result in millions more people getting vaccinated. Without vaccination requirements, we face endless months of chaos in our hospitals, further detrimental impacts on our economy, and anxiety in our schools. With them, we will accelerate our path out of the pandemic."
United States. White House Office
2021-10-07
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Pandemic Highlights Need for Additional Tribal Drinking Water Assistance and Oversight in EPA Regions 9 and 10
From the Document: "The Office of Inspector General initiated [hyperlink] this evaluation to determine how the coronavirus pandemic--that is, the SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] virus and resultant COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] disease--affected the ability of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regions 9 and 10 to provide oversight to help public water systems in Indian Country deliver safe drinking water to customers. Our work focused on oversight of tribal drinking water systems in Regions 9 and 10, as more federally recognized tribes are located in these two regions than in other EPA regions. We sought to understand the conditions facing tribal drinking water systems and how the pandemic affected the regions' direct implementation and use of existing regulations and tools during the pandemic."
United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of the Inspector General
2021-09-27
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Care Concerns and the Impact of COVID-19 on a Patient at the Fayetteville VA Coastal Health Care System in North Carolina
From the Executive Summary: "The VA [Department of Veterans Affairs] Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a healthcare inspection at the Fayetteville VA Coastal Health Care System (facility) in North Carolina to assess concerns related to quality, coordination, and timeliness of a patient's care in 2020. The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on the care of the patient was also evaluated. The patient later died at another Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facility."
United States. Department of Veterans Affairs. Office of Inspector General
2021-09-27
