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• Delayed and Forgone Health Care for Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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  From the Document: "Since the pandemic began, health care providers and consumers have sought to minimize COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] transmission by limiting in-person visits. Consequently, many children are missing out on or having their health care delayed. Drawing on the Urban Institute's September 2020 Coronavirus Tracking Survey, we examine delayed and forgone health care for children during the pandemic because of parents' concerns about exposure to the coronavirus or limits on providers' services due to the coronavirus outbreak. We also show parent-reported impacts of delayed or forgone care for children on children's health, schooling, and other daily activities."

  Urban Institute; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  Gonzalez, Dulce; Karpman, Michael; Kenney, Genevieve M. . . .

  2021-02
• COVIDcast: Olivia Troye Inside the White House Coronavirus Task Force [audio]

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  From the Webpage Description: "In the latest episode of COVIDcast, Lowy Institute Research Fellow Lydia Khalil sat down with Olivia Troye, a former White House Coronavirus Task Force member and Homeland Security Advisor to Vice President Mike Pence to discuss the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. Troye is the most recent Trump administration official to resign her position and come out publicly criticising the President's handling of the pandemic."

  Lowy Institute for International Policy

  Khalil, Lydia; Troye, Olivia

  2020-10-20
• Amid Confusion Over the Public Charge Rule, Immigrant Families Continued Avoiding Public Benefits in 2019

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  From the Document: "The current administration's new 'public charge' rule took effect in February 2020, significantly expanding the criteria for determining whether applicants for permanent residency, or green cards, may be denied based on past or potential use of government benefit programs. Even before the rule took effect, evidence shows the proposed rule produced widespread chilling effects nationally, meaning eligible immigrant families-- including those who would not be subject to the rule--avoided enrolling in public benefit programs for fear of immigration consequences (Bernstein et al. 2019; Bernstein, McTarnaghan, and Gonzalez 2019; Straut-Eppsteiner 2020; Tolbert, Artiga, and Pham 2019). This phenomenon has become even more alarming during the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, in which many immigrant families are vulnerable to acute medical and economic hardship. Families may avoid medical care and public supports for fear of being deemed a public charge, despite formal clarification by the federal government that COVID-19 testing and treatment will not be considered."

  Urban Institute

  Bernstein, Hamutal; Gonzalez, Dulce; Karpman, Michael . . .

  2020-05
• COVID-19 Pandemic is Straining Families' Abilities to Afford Basic Needs

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  From the Document: "As it confronts the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, the US faces what could be its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The social distancing measures needed to slow transmission of the novel coronavirus have already taken a staggering economic toll, with over 26 million unemployment insurance claims filed between March 15 and April 18. To combat the crisis, federal policymakers have passed four major relief bills to date, including the $2 trillion CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act, which includes enhanced benefits and expanded eligibility for unemployment insurance, forgivable small-business loans, economic relief payments sent directly to most US households, aid to state and local governments, and increased funding for housing assistance and other safety net programs. A successful government response to the economic consequences of the pandemic is critical for sustaining families' health and well-being and allowing families to remain housed as major sectors of the economy remain closed."

  Urban Institute

  Karpman, Michael; Zuckerman, Stephen; Gonzalez, Dulce . . .

  2020-04
• Adults in Families Losing Jobs During the Pandemic Also Lost Employer-sponsored Health Insurance

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  From the Document: "The recession caused by the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic is expected to lead to losses of employer-sponsored health insurance coverage (ESI) and a rise in uninsurance (Banthin et al. 2020; Garfield et al. 2020; Garrett and Gangopadhyaya 2020). These coverage losses would test the health care safety net established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Further, the strength of this safety net varies across states: adults who lose ESI in the 15 states that have not expanded Medicaid under the ACA face greater challenges finding replacement coverage (Garfield et al. 2020)."

  Urban Institute

  Karpman, Michael; Zuckerman, Stephen; Peterson, Graeme

  2020-07
• Hispanic Adults in Families with Noncitizens Disproportionately Feel the Economic Fallout from COVID-19

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  From the Document: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic threatens to upend the well-being of many Hispanic adults and their families. Already, the pandemic is affecting Hispanic adults' family financial security to a greater extent than other racial/ethnic groups. As of late March/early April 2020, nearly 6 in 10 nonelderly Hispanic adults were in families where someone lost a job, work hours, or work-related income because of the coronavirus outbreak, and close to 5 in 10 experienced some material hardship in the past 30 days (Karpman et al. 2020). Underlying these disparities for Hispanic adults is their disproportionate representation in industries most likely affected by the pandemic and their lower likelihood of having jobs that can be performed from home (Berube and Bateman 2020)."

  Urban Institute

  Gonzalez, Dulce; Karpman, Michael; Kenney, Genevieve M. . . .

  2020-05
• Maternity Care Financing: Challenges and Opportunities Highlighted by the COVID-19 Pandemic

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  From the Document: "Maternal mortality and serious morbidity rates are considerably higher in the United States than in other wealthy nations, and women of color are bearing the brunt of this crisis. Black and indigenous women are two to three times more likely to experience poor maternal and infant outcomes than white women in the United States. Even before the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, structural racism--including in how maternity care is delivered and financed-- has driven maternal health disparities. In this brief, we identify emerging challenges and key priorities for financing maternity care and other services for pregnant and postpartum women in ways that promote health equity."

  Urban Institute; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  Allen, Eva H.; Benatar, Sarah

  2020-10
• Maternal Telehealth Has Expanded Dramatically During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Equity Concerns and Promising Approaches

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  From the Document: "The maternal mortality crisis in the United States is particularly acute for women of color. Black and indigenous women are two to three times more likely to experience worse maternal health outcomes than white women. Increasingly, structural racism has been recognized as a key driver of maternal health disparities and inequities. This structural racism extends to systems and organizations that provide perinatal care and wraparound health and social services for pregnant and postpartum women with low incomes, many of whom are at highest risk of poor maternal health outcomes. In response to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, health systems, including perinatal service and support providers, have been forced to rely on telehealth, or the remote provision of care through telecommunications technology, to reach their clients. This has resulted in remarkable ingenuity, rapid reimbursement changes, and important experiences that can inform the role of telehealth in maternity and postpartum care going forward. At the same time, it has raised critical questions regarding how to ensure equitable access and the provision of high-quality 'virtual' care. Part of a larger 'series' [hyperlink] on the pandemic and maternal health equity, this analysis explores what promising maternal care telehealth practices have emerged during the pandemic, what access and equity concerns surrounding maternal health have arisen in light of increased reliance on telehealth, and what lessons can be applied to a postpandemic future."

  Urban Institute

  Hill, Ian; Burroughs, Emily

  2020-10
• Uneven Recovery Leaves Many Hispanic, Black, and Low-Income Adults Struggling: One in Four Adults Say Their Families Are Worse Off Six Months into the Pandemic

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  From the Document: "The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and other legislation provided substantial assistance to households hit hard by the pandemic-induced recession, but much of this assistance was temporary. For the past few months, Congress and the Trump administration have failed to come to an agreement that would provide additional help to families who continue to struggle. Despite some improvement in the labor market since April, recent data reveal slowing job growth and a growing number of workers facing permanent job loss, signaling an immediate need for more federal stimulus. But focusing on aggregate employment statistics alone offers only a partial glimpse into the economic recovery. These data do not directly address how families' economic well-being has changed over the course of the pandemic. In this brief, we assess how adults and their families were faring in September relative to the beginning of March, before the pandemic caused a sharp economic recession. We use data from the second wave of the Urban Institute's Coronavirus Tracking Survey, a nationally representative survey of nonelderly adults conducted September 11-28, 2020, to examine how family employment and financial situations have changed six months into the pandemic and how these changes have differed by race/ethnicity and prepandemic family income. We also explore the financial strategies families are using to cope with job loss and how much support families experiencing job loss are receiving from public and private safety-net programs."

  Urban Institute

  Karpman, Michael; Zuckerman, Stephen; Kenney, Genevieve M.

  2020-10
• Report 34: COVID-19 Infection Fatality Ratio: Estimates from Seroprevalence

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  From the Summary: "The infection fatality ratio (IFR) is a key statistic for estimating the burden of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and has been continuously debated throughout the current pandemic. Previous estimates have relied on data early in the epidemic, or have not fully accounted for uncertainty in serological test characteristics and delays from onset of infection to seroconversion, death, and antibody waning. After screening 175 studies, we identified 10 representative antibody surveys to obtain updated estimates of the IFR using a modelling framework that addresses the limitations listed above. We inferred serological test specificity from regional variation within serosurveys, which is critical for correctly estimating the cumulative proportion infected when seroprevalence is still low. We find that age-specific IFRs follow an approximately log-linear pattern, with the risk of death doubling approximately every eight years of age. Using these age-specific estimates, we estimate the overall IFR in a typical low-income country, with a population structure skewed towards younger individuals, to be 0.23% (0.14-0.42 95% prediction interval range). In contrast, in a typical high income country, with a greater concentration of elderly individuals, we estimate the overall IFR to be 1.15% (0.78-1.79 95% prediction interval range). [...] Unbiased estimates of the IFR continue to be critical to policymakers to inform key response decisions. It will be important to continue to monitor the IFR as new treatments are introduced."

  Imperial College London

  Brazeau, Nicholas F.; Verity, Robert; Jenks, Sara . . .

  2020-10-29
• Urgent Action Needed to Address Children's Unmet Health Care Needs During the Pandemic

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  From the Document: "Discussions about unmet health care needs during the pandemic often focus on testing or treatment for COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] itself. But as shortages of testing and hospital capacity have been subsiding, it has become increasingly clear that the pandemic has had dramatic spillover effects on receipt of other health care services. [...] People may delay or forgo care during the pandemic for many reasons. Some reasons are structural; many physicians and clinics closed their offices or restricted in-person visits, particularly in the early months of the crisis (Corallo and Tolbert 2020). But other reasons may include job and associated health insurance losses, transportation and child care challenges, and fears of contracting or transmitting the virus. [...] Because children have generally had both lower infection rates and less severe COVID-19 cases than adults and tend to be healthy overall, their health needs have received less attention during the pandemic. But, growing evidence shows children contracting and transmitting the virus, as well as missing essential preventive care and other diagnostic and therapeutic services unrelated to the coronavirus during the pandemic."

  Urban Institute

  McMorrow, Stacey; Gonzalez, Dulce; Alvarez Caraveo, Clara . . .

  2020-10
• Investigation into the Insurability of Pandemic Risk

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  From the Executive Summary: "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] and the draconian shutdown measures adopted by many governments to contain it have plunged the global economy into the deepest recession since the Second World War. For the global insurance industry, too, the pandemic is a severe loss event. Despite this massive strain, initially exacerbated by a steep decline in capital markets, insurers worldwide promptly paid legitimate claims in all areas where pandemic risk was intended to be covered; for example, under life, health and event cancellation policies. In addition, also during the lockdowns, insurers have continued to pay claims and benefits unrelated to the pandemic; for example, in motor, liability and annuities insurance. [...] The extent of correlation and aggregation of pandemic losses for businesses across the globe has put the insurability of pandemic risk in the spotlight. It touches upon the pivotal question of whether pandemics are a type of risk for which the insurance industry can play any kind of role or if this is the type of risk where traditional insurance products are not the solution."

  International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics

  Schanz, Kai-Uwe; Eling, Martin; Schmeiser, Hato . . .

  2020-10
• What Have We Learnt? Overview of Findings from a Survey of Ministries of Education on National Responses to COVID-19

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  From the Executive Summary: "As part of the coordinated global education response to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 20219] pandemic, UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization], UNICEF [United Nations Children's Fund] and the World Bank have conducted a Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures. In this joint report, we analyse the results of the first two rounds of data collection administered by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). They cover government responses to school closures from pre-primary to secondary education. The first round of the survey was completed by Ministry of Education officials of 118 countries between May and June 2020, and the second round from 149 countries between July and October 2020. The survey instrument was designed to capture 'de jure' policy responses and perceptions from government officials on their effectiveness, providing a systematic understanding of deployed policies, practices, and intentions to date."

  UNESCO; UNICEF; World Bank

  2020-10
• California's Division of Juvenile Justice Fails to Protect Youth Amid COVID-19

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  From the Introduction: "As COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] cases surge worldwide, young people in California's state-run youth correctional system, the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ), remain at high risk of contracting the deadly virus. During a first-wave outbreak in June and July of 2020, DJJ was unable to control COVID-19's rapid spread, resulting in the infection of one in twelve youth (CDCR, 2020). By the end of the summer, DJJ had one of the highest coronavirus case counts in the nation, with its Ventura Youth Correctional Facility ('Ventura') ranking sixth among over one thousand youth facilities (Rovner, 2020). COVID-19 spread quickly through DJJ due to its cramped living conditions and slow, inadequate responses to the emergency. The system's failure to curb an initial outbreak serves as a warning. DJJ's second COVID-19 crisis could be catastrophic, endangering youth, staff, and nearby communities. California must heed the lessons of this summer to ensure that youth are kept safe - both from the deadly virus and the devastating effects of isolation."

  Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (San Francisco, Calif.)

  Washburn, Maureen; Menart, Renee

  2020-11
• 'Reasonable Encouragement to Our Home Industry': The Republican Party's Response to the Coronavirus

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  From the Key Points: "[1] Conservatives and libertarians have criticized congressional Republicans for responding to the coronavirus pandemic with deficit-financed stimulus. [2] While the deficit is no doubt an issue that deserves more attention, Republican responses--particularly the efforts to prop up the business community--are in keeping with the party's long-established ideology. [3] Since its founding, the Republican Party has had a close connection to American business, and, viewed in this light, its response to the coronavirus is consistent with party orthodoxy."

  American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

  Cost, Jay

  2020-10
• COVID-19: HHS Should Clarify Agency Roles for Emergency Return of U.S. Citizens During a Pandemic, Report to Congressional Addressees

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  From the Highlights: "HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] provides temporary assistance to U.S. citizens repatriated by the Department of State (State) from a foreign country because of destitution, illness, threat of war, or similar crises through the U.S. Repatriation Program. In January and February 2020, HHS assisted State in repatriating individuals from Wuhan, China, and the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, Japan, to the U.S. HHS quarantined repatriates at five Department of Defense (DOD) installations to ensure they did not infect others with COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. GAO [Government Accountability Office] was asked to examine HHS's COVID-19 repatriation efforts to ensure the health and safety of those involved in the response. This report examines HHS's coordination and management of its COVID-19 repatriation response."

  United States. Government Accountability Office

  2021-04
• IPBES Workshop on Biodiversity and Pandemics: Workshop Report

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  From the Preamble: "The IPBES [Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services] Bureau and Multidisciplinary Expert Panel, in the context of the extraordinary situation caused by the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, and considering the role that IPBES can play in strengthening the knowledge base on biodiversity, decided that IPBES would organize a 'Platform workshop' on biodiversity and pandemics, in accordance with the procedures for the preparation of IPBES deliverables, in particular decision IPBES-3/3, annex I, section 6.1. on the organization of Platform workshops. This workshop, held virtually on 27-31 July 2020, provided an opportunity to review the scientific evidence on the origin, emergence and impact of COVID-19 and other pandemics, as well as on options for controlling and preventing pandemics, with the goal to provide immediate information, as well as enhance the information IPBES can provide to its users and stakeholders in its ongoing and future assessments. [...] The workshop brought together 22 experts from all regions of the world, to discuss 1) how pandemics emerge from the microbial diversity found in nature; 2) the role of land-use change and climate change in driving pandemics; 3) the role of wildlife trade in driving pandemics; 4) learning from nature to better control pandemics; and 5) preventing pandemics based on a 'One Health' approach."

  Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

  2020
• How Are Youth Employment Programs Adapting to COVID-19?

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  From the Document: "In this Knowledge Brief, we highlight different ways in which youth employment projects in S4YE's [Solutions for Youth Employment] community of practice, the Impact Portfolio [hyperlink], are adapting their strategies and delivery models in response to COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. Based on recent and ongoing discussions with our partners, we see six main trends that programs are using to maintain operational and programmatic continuity. These include scaling of virtual operations, crowdsourcing ideas from youth, accelerating remote learning, encouraging youth voice, increased support for micro, small and medium enterprises, and leveraging new growth opportunities. Overall, we see a deepening and widening of the ways our partners are using digital technology to be effective and to reach more youth in these challenging times."

  World Bank Group; Solutions for Youth Employment

  Singh, Sunamika; Joseph, Kavell

  2020-10
• COVID-19 Geospatial Vulnerability Indices and the GeoLAC Repository for Geospatial Data

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  From the Document: "'The GeoLAC [Geothermal Congress for Latin America & the Caribbean] repository contains three maps of the LAC [Latin America & the Caribbean] region that aim to inform policy (governments and the World Bank) around the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] crisis.' These maps present three new vulnerability indeces that tackle the following topics: (1) Expected employment losses in local labor markets; (2) Structural socioeconomic vulnerabilities at subnational levels to various forms of shocks (economic, health, etc.); and (3) Socioeconomic vulnerabilities at subnational levels specific to the COVID-19 crisis."

  World Bank Group

  Canavire, Gustavo; Romero, Javier; Castro, Diana Marcela Sanchez

  2020-07
• Big Data and Analytics for Infectious Disease Research, Operations, and Policy: Proceedings of a Workshop

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  From the website: "With the amount of data in the world exploding, big data could generate significant value in the field of infectious disease. The increased use of social media provides an opportunity to improve public health surveillance systems and to develop predictive models. Advances in machine learning and crowdsourcing may also offer the possibility to gather information about disease dynamics, such as contact patterns and the impact of the social environment. New, rapid, point-of-care diagnostics may make it possible to capture not only diagnostic information but also other potentially epidemiologically relevant information in real time. With a wide range of data available for analysis, decision-making and policy-making processes could be improved. While there are many opportunities for big data to be used for infectious disease research, operations, and policy, many challenges remain before it is possible to capture the full potential of big data. In order to explore some of the opportunities and issues associated with the scientific, policy, and operational aspects of big data in relation to microbial threats and public health, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop in May 2016. Participants discussed a range of topics including preventing, detecting, and responding to infectious disease threats using big data and related analytics; varieties of data (including demographic, geospatial, behavioral, syndromic, and laboratory) and their broader applications; means to improve their collection, processing, utility, and validation; and approaches that can be learned from other sectors to inform big data strategies for infectious disease research, operations, and policy. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop."

  National Academies Press (U.S.)

  Alper, Joe; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.)

  2016
• Stock Prices, Lockdowns, and Economic Activity in the Time of Coronavirus

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  From the Introduction: "Stock markets cratered after mid-February in countries around the world, as the coronavirus pandemic spread beyond China. Value-weighted prices dropped 40 percent from 17 February to 23 March in the advanced economies. Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) saw an even steeper drop. This period also exhibits historically high levels of intraday, daily, and implied stock market volatilities against a backdrop of extraordinarily high economic uncertainty. [...] Our study relates closely to a rapidly growing literature on the dynamics of stock prices, economic activity, and policy actions during the coronavirus pandemic. [...] [W]e contribute by documenting the predictive content of national stock prices for near-future economic activity and by providing evidence that stock prices fall sharply with the stringency of lockdown measures, conditional on a battery of controls for pandemic severity, mobility, and the generosity of income support and debt relief policies."

  Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics

  Davis, Steven J.; Liu, Dingqian; Sheng, Xuguang Simon

  2020-12
• Hurricane and Disaster Preparedness During COVID-19

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  From the Document: "Hurricane season is already proving to be active with the threat of two named storms occurring prior to the official start of the season. This Hurricane Preparedness guide was developed as a toolkit to assist employers and residents in addressing the combined challenges of a hurricane coupled with the backdrop of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic."

  USI Insurance Services

  2020-06
• Building Communication Capacity to Counter Infectious Disease Threats: Proceedings of a Workshop

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  "Building communication capacity is a critical piece of preparing for, detecting, and responding to infectious disease threats. The International Health Regulations (IHR) establish risk communication-the real-time exchange of information, advice, and opinions between experts or officials and people who face a threat to their survival, health, and economic or social well-being-as a core capacity that World Health Organization member states must fulfill to strengthen the fight against these threats. Despite global recognition of the importance of complying with IHR, 67 percent of signatory countries report themselves as not compliant. By investing in communication capacity, public health and government officials and civil society organizations facing health crises would be prepared to provide advice, information, and reassurance to the public as well as to rapidly develop messages and community engagement activities that are coordinated and take into account social and behavioral dynamics among all sectors."

  National Academies Press (U.S.)

  Alper, Joe; Ogawa, V. Ayano; Mundaca Shah, Cecilia

  2017
• Violence Against Women and Children During COVID-19-- One Year on and 100 Papers In: A Fourth Research Round Up

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  From the Document: "A year after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] a pandemic, we take stock of an increasingly diverse set of new studies linking violence against women and children (VAW/C) to COVID-19 and associated pandemic response measures. In this fourth round up, we focus exclusively on research in low- and middle-income countries (LICs and MICs) published since December 2020 to highlight dynamics in settings that previously had fewer studies. As in previous round ups (see the first [hyperlink], second [hyperlink] and third [hyperlink] covering a total of 74 studies), we only include studies that have sufficient information on indicator definition and analysis methods (though we maintain a full set of studies--including more policy-oriented briefs and reports--in our evidence tracker [hyperlink]). In total, we summarize 26 new studies from LICs and MICs, with the majority focused on identifying trends (15 studies), while others present analysis of risk factors or dynamics (an additional ten studies), and one represents an impact analysis of prevention programming."

  Center for Global Development

  Bourgault, Shelby; Peterman, Amber; O'Donnell, Megan

  2021-04
• COVIDcast: Chatib Basri on Indonesia's Struggle with COVID-19 and Its First Recession Since 1998 [Audio]

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  From the Webpage: "In this episode of COVID [coronavirus disease] cast, Ben Bland, the Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute, sat down with Chatib Basri to discuss Indonesia's struggle with COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] and the way forward after Southeast Asia's biggest economy slid into its first recession since the Asian Financial Crisis. Chatib is a former finance minister and head of the investment coordinating board in Indonesia. COVIDcast is a Lowy Institute pop-up podcast for anyone interested in understanding the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on global politics. In each episode, Lowy Institute experts and invited guests discuss the implications of this crisis for the world." The duration of this audio is 29 minutes and 12 seconds.

  Lowy Institute for International Policy

  Bland, Ben; Basri, M. Chatib

  2020-11-10
• MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 30, 2021

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  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: "Health Status and Health Care Use Among Adolescents Identified With and Without Autism in Early Childhood -- Four U.S. Sites, 2018-2020"; "Emergency Department Visits for Tick Bites -- United States, January 2017-December 2019"; "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Outbreak Among Farmworkers -- Okanogan County, Washington, May-August 2020"; "COVID-19 Among Workers in the Seafood Processing Industry: Implications for Prevention Measures -- Alaska, March-October 2020"; "Linked Clusters of SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] Variant B.1.351 -- Maryland, January-February 2021"; "Postvaccination SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Skilled Nursing Facility Residents and Staff Members - Chicago, Illinois, December 2020-March 2021"; "COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with a SARS-CoV-2 R.1 Lineage Variant in a Skilled Nursing Facility After Vaccination Program - Kentucky, March 2021"; "Health Care Utilization and Clinical Characteristics of Nonhospitalized Adults in an Integrated Health Care System 28-180 Days After COVID-19 Diagnosis -- Georgia, May 2020-March 2021"; "Updated Recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for Use of the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 Vaccine After Reports of Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Among Vaccine Recipients -- United States, April 2021"; and "'QuickStats': Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years with Arthritis, by Sex and Age Group -- 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.)

  2021-04-30
• Global Health Security: USAID and CDC Funding, Activities, and Assessments of Countries' Capacities to Address Infectious Disease Threats Before COVID-19 Onset, Report to Congressional Committees

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  From the Highlights: "The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in December 2019 demonstrated that infectious diseases can lead to catastrophic loss of life and sustained damage to the global economy. USAID [U.S. Agency for International Development] and CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] have led U.S. efforts to strengthen GHS [global health security]--that is, global capacity to prepare for, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats and to reduce or prevent their spread across borders. These efforts include work related to the multilateral GHSA [Global Health Security Agenda] initiative, which aims to accelerate progress toward compliance with international health regulations and other agreements. House Report 114-693 contained a provision for GAO [Government Accountability Office] to review the use of GHS funds. In this report, GAO examines, for the 5 fiscal years before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, (1) the status of USAID's and CDC's GHS funding and activities and (2) U.S. agencies' assessments, at the end of fiscal year 2019, of GHSA partner countries' capacities to address infectious disease threats and of challenges these countries faced in building capacity."

  United States. Government Accountability Office

  2021-04
• Battling the Invisible Enemy: The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate's COVID-19 Response, One Year Later

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  From the Document: "For millions of citizens around the world locked down in quarantine, staying at home and waiting to learn more about COVID-19, it may have felt like life was put on pause for most of 2020. But for emergency managers, policy makers, research scientists, countless frontline workers, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), everything kicked into high gear. [...] This document highlights just some of the important work S&T has contributed to during this turbulent time. It describes scientifc [sic] studies and their corresponding conclusions, recounts multifaceted support given without hesitation to fellow DHS components and other key partners, and it looks forward to what's next for this response. I am incredibly proud of the way so many people have stepped up and risen to the challenge to stop this pandemic."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security. Science and Technology Directorate

  2021-04
• MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 30, 2021: Safety Monitoring of the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 Vaccine -- United States, March-April 2021

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  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: "Safety Monitoring of the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Vaccine -- United States, March-April 2021." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html].

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)

  2021-04-30
• MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 30, 2021: Anxiety-Related Adverse Event Clusters After Janssen COVID-19 Vaccination -- Five U.S. Mass Vaccination Sites, April 2021

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  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: "Anxiety-Related Adverse Event Clusters After Janssen COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Vaccination -- Five U.S. Mass Vaccination Sites, April 2021." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html].

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