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COVID-19: Urgent Actions Needed to Better Ensure an Effective Federal Response, Report to Congressional Committees
From the Highlights: "As of November 12, 2020, the U.S. had over 10.3 million cumulative reported cases of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] and about 224,000 reported deaths, according to federal agencies. The country also continues to experience serious economic repercussions. Four relief laws, including the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act, were enacted as of November 2020 to provide appropriations to address the public health and economic threats posed by COVID-19. As of September 30, 2020, of the $2.6 trillion appropriated by these acts, the federal government had obligated a total of $1.8 trillion and expended $1.6 trillion of the COVID-19 relief funds, as reported by federal agencies. The CARES Act included a provision for GAO [Government Accountability Office] to report on its ongoing monitoring and oversight efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report examines the federal government's continued efforts to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-11
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COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update [1 November 2020]
From the Document: "As of 1 November, nearly 46 million cases and 1.2 million deaths have been reported globally. The further acceleration in the incidence of new cases was most notable in European Region, which reported half of global new cases (over 1.7 million cases - a 22% increase from the previous week. Moreover, the region also reported a substantial rise in the number of new deaths (a 46% increase compared with the previous week), with Europe and the Americas now each reporting over 17 000 new deaths in the last 7 days.) The Americas and the Eastern-Mediterranean Regions have also seen relatively smaller rises in the number of reported cases. The South-East Asia Region has continued to report a decline in new cases and deaths, while case incidence continues to fluctuate around similar rates compared to recent weeks in the African and Western Pacific Regions."
World Health Organization
2020-11-01
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UN Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery: Leveraging the Power of Science for a More Equitable, Resilient and Sustainable Future
From the Executive Summary: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] crisis has exposed stark global inequities, fragilities and unsustainable practices that pre-date this pandemic and have intensified its impact. Recovering better from COVID-19 will depend on bold efforts to strengthen health systems, shore up social protections, protect economic opportunities, bolster multilateral collaboration, and enhance social cohesion. [...] Science represents the world's best chance for recovering better from the COVID-19 crisis. [...] This 'UN Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery' provides a framework for leveraging the power of science in support of a better socio-economic recovery and a more equitable, resilient and sustainable future. [...] This 'Roadmap' is a commitment and a guide to make use of research to determine how COVID-19 socio-economic recovery efforts can be purposefully designed to stimulate equity, resilience, sustainability and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 'Roadmap' outlines a set of 25 research priorities - five priorities for each of the five pillars of the UN's socio-economic recovery framework - as well as numerous sub-priorities providing more comprehensive elaboration."
United Nations
2020-11
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Reimagining the 'Global Economy': Building Back Better in a Post-COVID-19 World
From the Preface: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] global pandemic has produced a human and economic crisis unlike any in recent memory. The global economy is experiencing its deepest recession since World War II, disrupting economic activity, travel, supply chains, and more. Governments have responded with lockdown measures and stimulus plans, but the extent of these actions has been unequal across countries. Within countries, the most vulnerable populations have been disproportionately affected, both in regard to job loss and the spread of the virus. [...] In this collection of 12 essays, leading scholars affiliated with the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings present new ideas that are forward-looking, policy-focused, and that will guide policies and shape debates in a post-COVID-19 world. [...] While the uncertainty around the pandemic and its effect loom large and create a challenging policy environment, together, the ideas in these essays offer a way forward for decisionmakers to reimagine the global economy and build back better from COVID-19."
Brookings Institution. Global Economy and Development
Basu, Alaka Malwade; Basu, Kaushik; Bhattacharya, Amar . . .
2020-11?
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Crisis Standards of Care: Lessons from New York City Hospitals' COVID-19 Experience. A Meeting Report
From the Introduction: "In the spring of 2020, hospitals in New York City suffered an unprecedented surge of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. This surge was associated with extraordinary use of critical care resources and high case fatality ratios (the number deaths divided by the number of recognized cases). During this epidemic, there were many reports of hospitals being overwhelmed. There were also reports about how conventional standards of care were unable to be maintained, forcing hospitals and healthcare workers to adjust the way in which care was provided in order to do the most good for the greatest number. 'Standard of care' is a legal concept related to 'the level at which the average, prudent provider in a given community would practice. It is how similarly qualified practitioners would have managed the patient's care under the same or similar circumstances.' The term 'crisis standards of care' (CSC) refers to 'a substantial change in usual healthcare operations and the level of care it is possible to deliver, which is made necessary by a pervasive (eg, pandemic influenza) or catastrophic (eg, earthquake, hurricane) disaster.' [...] For over a decade, there has been considerable discussion within the healthcare preparedness professional community about CSC. [...] The purpose of this project was to convene a trusted space in which critical care physicians from hospitals across New York City could discuss their experiences with CSC implementation with each other and with national experts on CSC."
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Center for Health Security
Toner, Eric (Eric S.); Mukherjee, Vikramjit; Hanfling, Dan . . .
2020-11
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New Perspectives: How COVID-19 Has Shifted Sustainability Priorities in the Mobile Sector
From the Overview of Findings: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, for all of its tragic consequences, has brought new awareness of the power and potential of a digitally enabled world, highlighting the key role of mobile operators as providers of connectivity. It is clear from this research that the increased demand and use of digital services, the urgency of the crisis, and steps taken to ensure business continuity have all impacted on sustainability priorities in the mobile sector, in many cases in a more permanent way."
GSMA
2020-11
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Defense Production Act: Opportunities Exist to Increase Transparency and Identify Future Actions to Mitigate Medical Supply Chain Issues, Report to Congressional Committees
From the Highlights: "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has put the U.S. health care system under severe strain, including affecting the federal government's ability to buy and maintain critical medical supplies to treat patients and protect health care workers. In March 2020 agencies began using DPA [Defense Production Act] authorities to rapidly obtain and expand domestic production of medical supplies for COVID-19. The CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act provided the Department of Defense (DOD) $1 billion for DPA purchases related to COVID-19. HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] also reported using some of the $8.4 billion it obligated to buy supplies and replenish the Strategic National Stockpile to increase domestic production of medical supplies, which GAO [Government Accountability Office] refers to as similar actions. The CARES Act includes a provision for GAO to monitor funds provided for the COVID-19 pandemic. This report examines (1) federal agencies' use of these actions to address COVID-19, and (2) the federal approach for using DPA and similar actions for medical supplies, among other issues."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-11
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Distance Learning: Challenges Providing Services to K-12 English Learners and Students with Disabilities During COVID-19, Report to Congressional Committees
From the Highlights: "Due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, almost all school districts rapidly shifted to distance learning in spring of the 2019-2020 school year. This shift laid bare both the logistical and instructional challenges of distance learning, particularly for English learners and students with disabilities, both of whom have faced persistent achievement gaps. This work was conducted as part of GAO's [Government Accountability Office] COVID-19 monitoring and oversight responsibilities under the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act. It examines what is known about the challenges of and lessons learned from providing distance learning to English learners and students with disabilities during school building closures in spring 2020."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-11
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic and Family Violence Services, Australia
From the Executive Summary: "Early during the pandemic, Australian healthcare and women's safety professionals predicted an 'impending increase' in domestic violence [...]. Advocates also reported concerns about increased complexities and challenges in assisting victims/survivors amidst COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. On the strength of these concerns, a research team from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Centre for Justice conducted a nation-wide survey on the impact of COVID-19 on the domestic and family violence (DFV) workforce."
Queensland University of Technology. Centre for Justice
Carrington, Kerry; Morley, Christine; Warren, Shane . . .
2020-11
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Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project
From the Executive Summary: "Attacks on scholars, students, staff, and their institutions occur with alarming frequency. Around the world, state and non-state actors, including armed militant and extremist groups, police and military forces, government authorities, off-campus groups, and even members of higher education communities, among others, carry out these attacks. They harm the individuals and institutions directly targeted. They undermine entire higher education systems by impairing the quality of teaching, research, and discourse on campus. They shrink everyone's space to think, question, and share ideas freely and safely, constricting public discourse and damaging social, political, cultural, and economic development from which everyone stands to benefit."
Scholars at Risk
2020-11
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Paying for the Pandemic and a Just Transition
From the Document: "Whether it's rehousing millions of displaced people in Bangladesh, or injecting trillions into the global economy to keep things afloat during the pandemic, the costs of these crises will continue to mount. As the debts rise, many will be asking, 'Who is going to pay for all this?' This report answers this question by bringing together ten progressive proposals that could pay for the costs of the pandemic and finance a just transition to a better world. In the words of economist Jayati Ghosh, this transition requires a 'global multicoloured new deal: red, green and purple'. Red - to fight against extreme wealth inequality, consolidation of corporate power and global poverty. Green - to prevent the imminent breakdown of ecological systems. Purple - to put essential care work at the center of our economic value system, acknowledging that working-class women across the world carry the heaviest burden of these crises. This report starts by looking at the costs of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] and estimates of what finance we would need to implement some of this multicolored new deal, before outlining ten progressive proposals that could cover these expenditures. What makes these proposals progressive is that they are designed to make those with the broadest shoulders pay."
Transnational Institute
Tippet, Ben
2020-11
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Scientific [Self] Isolation: International Trends in Misinformation and the Departure from the Scientific Debate
From the Abstract: "The digital environment became a central arena for political disputes around the world and, as such, has been subject to various disinformation campaigns. False or misleading information has populated online discussions and has circulated across different countries. Disinformation is both a global and regional phenomenon; while some false claims travel through the internet, other claims are directly related to regional beliefs and political narratives. This report analyzes trends in disinformation across different countries, evaluating different patterns to understand how countries position themselves with regards to mis and disinformation related to the pandemic."
UNESCO
Machado, Caio C. Vieira; Santos, João Guilherme; Santos, Nina . . .
2020-11
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Building a New Regional Migration System: Redefining U.S. Cooperation with Mexico and Central America
From the Executive Summary: "One of the most important challenges the Biden administration will face when it takes office will be how to address regional cooperation around migration. While the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has severely limited mobility through the region and beyond, and will likely demand much of the new administration's initial focus, migration is an enduring if ever-shifting regional phenomenon and demands intelligent management. Large-scale unauthorized migration from Central America and, to a lesser extent, Mexico is driven by a variety of forces, and migrants themselves have a range of humanitarian, economic, and other personal reasons for moving. An enforcement-only approach to migration management on the part of the United States, which in recent years has been centered on limiting access to asylum and forcing cooperation from other countries in the region, may work for short periods of time, but is unlikely to be sustainable."
Migration Policy Institute
Ruiz Soto, Ariel G.; Selee, Andrew D.
2020-11
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Early Readout on the Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis: Immigrant Women Have the Highest Unemployment
From the Executive Summary: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic and efforts to slow its spread through social distancing, lockdowns, and other measures have led to historically high U.S. unemployment rates, which at their peak in April 2020 far surpassed those seen during the recession of 2008-09. More than half a year after the first measures to combat the public-health crisis were taken in mid-March 2020, some groups of Americans faced much higher unemployment than others, with immigrant women among those hit hardest."
Migration Policy Institute
Gelatt, Julia; Batalova, Jeanne, 1974-; Capps, Randy
2020-11
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Affordable Care Act and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
From the Abstract: "Did Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act affect the course of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic? We answer this question using a regression discontinuity design for counties near the borders of states that expanded Medicaid with states that did not. Relevant covariates change continuously across the Medicaid expansion frontier. We find that 1) health insurance changes discontinuously at the frontier, 2) COVID-19 cases do not change discontinuously at the frontier but the precision of this estimate is low, 3) COVID-19 deaths do not change discontinuously at the frontier and the confidence intervals exclude large declines in deaths in Medicaid expansion areas, 4) smart thermometer readings of fever rates from Kinsa, Inc. do not change discontinuously at the frontier, and 5) COVID-19-related doctor visits discontinuously increase in Medicaid expansion areas."
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Meyerson, Lindsay; Nober, William . . .
2020-11
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Is the Coronavirus Catalyzing New Civic Collaborations for Open Government?
From the Summary: "From Africa to Latin America to Europe, the coronavirus pandemic has generated a surge in public demand for government transparency and accountability. To 'seize this window for reform', elite and grassroots civic actors concerned with open governance must overcome the cleavage that has long existed between them. Thus far, the pandemic has catalyzed some new civic collaborations, 'but not at the scale or depth needed' to seize that window. In general, civil society groups report feeling more isolated during the pandemic. In some places, the urgency of tackling open government issues during the pandemic has helped overcome that isolation 'by deepening partnerships among existing networks'. But in other places, those partnerships have 'yet to take shape, and new alliances are less likely to form' without the benefit of face-to-face interactions. Even the partnerships that have crystallized or deepened do not appear to be changing the fundamental roles of elite and grassroots civic actors. It is possible that this shift may happen over time. Or it may be that the pandemic alone is not enough to dislodge structural barriers to deeper cooperation."
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Bellows, Abigail; Zohdy, Nada
2020-11
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COVID-19 Winter Plan
From the Introduction: "The UK Government's COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Winter Plan presents a programme for suppressing the virus, protecting the NHS [National Health Service] and the vulnerable, keeping education and the economy going and providing a route back to normality."
Great Britain. HM Government
2020-11
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Profiting from the Pandemic: Moderating COVID-19 Lockdown Protest, Scam, and Health Disinformation Websites
From the Summary: "This data memo examines the infrastructural support for controversial COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] websites that (1) protest public health measures such as lockdowns, (2) promote COVID-19 scams, frauds and profiteering, and (3) disseminate disinformation about public health. What hosting, functionality, and networking services do these controversial websites rely upon? We systematically use an open source toolkit to investigate a wide array of third-party and infrastructure services that generate revenue for technology firms from websites with content that are targets of takedowns or other forms of content moderation. First, we find that Google, GoDaddy and Cloudflare are among the single largest firm providing infrastructural support. Second, Google and Facebook are among the single largest firms providing a vast array of third party technology services. Finally, we find that websites utilize behavioral analytics, tracker systems, and cross-platform integration tools that connect them back to large technology firms in multiple ways. We demonstrate how firms up and down the technology stack profits from contentious COVID-19 websites, even after steps such as ad removals or content moderation."
Oxford Internet Institute. Project on Computational Propaganda
Au, Yung; Howard, Philip N.
2020-11
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Profiting from the Pandemic: Online Supplement
This is the online supplement to the Computational Propaganda Project report "Profiting from the Pandemic: Moderating COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Lockdown Protest, Scam, and Health Disinformation Websites."
Oxford Internet Institute. Project on Computational Propaganda
Au, Yung; Howard, Philip N.
2020-11?
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Physical Proximity to Others in California's Workplaces: Occupational Estimates and Demographic and Job Characteristics
From the Introduction: "California's success in containing the coronavirus and saving lives will rest on our collective ability to sustain rigorous public health measures, supplement federal safety net programs to reduce economic pain, and establish and enforce robust workplace safety regulations. From the standpoint of the labor market, two challenges stand out. First, the workplace has emerged as a central site of infection transmission. [...] As more and more workers return to work, policymakers need to understand the full range of jobs at risk of infection. Second, it is clear that the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic is exacerbating deep health and labor market inequalities for communities of color. As is true nationally, Black and Latino/a infection and mortality rates in California are significantly higher than White rates. Employment in high-risk jobs is undeniably a contributing factor to race-based differences in infection rates, even though insufficient data in the US means that researchers have not been able to directly establish the link so far. In this research brief, we build on our previous research on essential workers, but use new data and broaden the analysis to the full range of occupations in the California labor market to help answer these questions: As the economy reopens, what levels of COVID-19 exposure risk will workers face when they return to their workplace? What are the demographic characteristics of these workers? And what jobs do they hold?"
University of California, Berkeley. Center for Labor Research and Education
Huang, Kuochih; Lindman, Tom; Bernhardt, Annette D., 1964- . . .
2020-11
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Building a More Resilient ICT Supply Chain: Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Executive Summary: "The impacts of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic on the Information Technology and Communication (ICT) sector's supply chains are still unfolding. To understand how IT [information technology] companies have been impacted, and to identify lessons learned about supply chain vulnerabilities and the potential ways to address them going forward, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) Task Force, a partnership between the IT and Communications Sector Coordinating Councils and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) formed a study group (collectively, 'the Study Group'). The goal of the Study Group was to uncover the impacts of COVID-19 on the ICT supply chains and make practical recommendations that can support policy and operational decisions to strengthen and build additional resilience into ICT supply chains in the future. These recommendations can support policy and operational decisions intended to strengthen supply chains going forward. The study also provides a high-level visual mapping of how goods and services flow through the generalized ICT supply chain, from the raw materials stage through to sale to the consumer."
United States. Department of Homeland Security. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
2020-11
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COVID and Corrections: A Profile of COVID Deaths in Custody in Texas
From the Introduction: "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has had a uniquely devastating impact on prisons and jails across the country. [...] Provided here are figures to help establish a shared understanding of the problem's scope and a starting place for discussion about potential policy responses. The brief begins with some key datapoints for easy reference. Then, we provide an overview of the death toll of incarcerated people and people who staff Texas prisons and jails. We compare Texas' prison deaths as a proportion of the prison population and infection rates with those for the state as a whole, the nation overall, and some peer prison systems in other jurisdictions. Next is an analysis of the demographics of people who died in terms of their age and race. We then briefly examine the legal status of those who died in custody, including their conviction status, sentences, parole eligibility, and conviction offense. By presenting this information, we hope to create a more detailed picture of the toll of COVID in Texas prisons and jails. The context and implications of the data will be examined in a future report. This brief covers only state-operated prisons and county-operated jails."
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Deitch, Michele; Welch, Alycia; Bucknall, William . . .
2020-11
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Trade-Offs of Remote Work: Building a More Resilient Workplace for the Post-COVID-19 World
From the Executive Summary: "Before the pandemic, remote work in America was a luxury reserved for just 7 percent of the workforce, mostly highly educated and highly paid knowledge workers. Then, in a matter of weeks, COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] forced virtually every industry, employer, and worker to transform their approach to work by shifting to an almost entirely remote model. It will be years before we fully understand how this shift has affected the economy, individual industries, and employees. This report seeks to outline the positive and negative trade-offs of remote work for employers and employees. We hope to improve the collective understanding of the existing research on remote work and some of the immediate impacts of COVID-19 and point the way toward areas of needed research."
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Orrell, Brent; Leger, Matthew
2020-11
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COVID-19: Federal Efforts Accelerate Vaccine and Therapeutic Development, but More Transparency Needed on Emergency Use Authorizations, Report to Congressional Addressees
From the GAO (Government Accountability Office) Highlights: "The U.S. had about 10.3 million cumulative reported cases of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] and about 224,000 reported deaths as of November 12, 2020. Given this catastrophic loss of life as well as the pandemic's effects on the U.S. economy, effective and safe vaccines and therapeutics are more important than ever. The CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act includes a provision for GAO to report on its ongoing monitoring and oversight efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report examines, (1) efforts of Operation Warp Speed to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine and therapeutic development; and (2) FDA's use of EUAs [emergency use authorizations] for COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines, among other objectives."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-11
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Toolkit on State Actions to Mitigate COVID-19 Prevalence in Nursing Homes [November 2020, Version 14]
From the Objective: "This toolkit catalogs the many innovative solutions designed at the state level to protect our nation's vulnerable nursing home residents during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Beginning in October 2020, the toolkit includes up-to-date information, guidance, and innovative programs designed to increase vaccine use against influenza virus, pneumococcus (bacterium), and SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2], the virus that causes COVID-19."
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
2020-11
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Stop the Virus of Disinformation: The Risk of Malicious Use of Social Media During COVID-19 and the Technology Options to Fight it
From the Foreword: "This report describes how terrorist, violent extremist and organized criminal groups are trying to take advantage of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic to expand their activities and jeopardize the efficacy and credibility of response measures by governments. Misinformation and disinformation on social media are not new problems, but the COVID-19 crisis has amplified them and created new opportunities for violent non-state actors. [...] It is also alarming that some terrorist and violent extremist groups have attempted to misuse social media to incite potential terrorists to intentionally spread COVID-19 and to use it as an improvised form of a biological weapon. Moreover, some criminal organizations have taken advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to portray a positive self-image to reinforce their presence and control in the territory and to further expand their illegal activities. [...] We hope this report enhances knowledge and understanding of this complex problem and encourages the identification of new approaches to prevent and combat the malicious use of social media by violent non-state actors."
United Nations. Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
Binetti, Soraya; Rosa, Fabrizio De; Garcia, Mariana Diaz . . .
2020-11
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Detection of COVID-19 in Wastewater
From the Overview: "This brief will provide an introduction to the use of SARS CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] monitoring in wastewater as an early warning system for increased infections in communities. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a relatively new but quickly evolving surveillance tool that can detect the presence of certain viruses in community water systems, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. This non-invasive method can measure the presence of COVID-19 genetic material (ribonucleic acid [RNA]) in fecal matter in a sewershed, the area that drains into a community's wastewater collection system."
Environmental Research Institute of the States; Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (U.S.)
2020-11
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Diagnostics for Biodefense: Flying Blind with No Plan to Land
From the Executive Summary: "As with all large-scale events, novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) reveals our national vulnerabilities. The pandemic casts a bright light on our limited capacity for diagnostic testing and our inability to conduct the necessary research to develop these tests quickly. When a disease affects the United States, we turn to diagnostic tests first. We want to know what we are dealing with, what might kill the microorganism causing the disease, who has been infected, and how far and how fast it is spreading. Without that information, we fly blind. With a disease like COVID-19, [...] the need for this knowledge is greater than ever before. Symptoms of COVID-19 vary greatly and often mimic those of the less deadly coronavirus infections and diseases caused by other pathogens (e.g., rhinoviruses, influenza). With decreased support for diagnostics research and development throughout the federal government, and the underlying assumption that diseases that begin to spread from other countries will not reach the United States, our Nation finds itself unable to track and control the spread of this disease. The Administration and Congress should not wait until COVID-19 recedes in the United States to take up these recommendations. Instead, they should establish diagnostic testing capacity and support development of new tests to address COVID-19 now and for the pandemics to come. Despite progress made during the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot expect to be ready for the next biological event without diagnostics."
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
2020-11
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Communicable Disease Threats Report: Week 44, 25-31 October 2020
The Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) is a weekly bulletin that provides updates on threats monitored by European Union and European Economic Area (ECDC). The Week 44 report covering October 25-31, 2020 assesses current threats and non-threats and provides an epidemiological overview of each in individualized reports. Threats covered in this issue include COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), West Nile virus, Dengue, Influenza, Ebola, MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) and Cholera.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
2020-10-31
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COVIDView: A Weekly Surveillance Summary of U.S. COVID-19 Activity, Week 44 [October 31, 2020]
From the Key Updates: "Nationally, surveillance indicators tracking levels of SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] virus circulation and associated illnesses have been increasing since September. The percentage of deaths due to pneumonia, influenza and COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] (PIC) increased during the first two weeks of October. Both COVID-19 related hospitalizations and PIC mortality for the most recent weeks may increase as more data are received."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-10-31
