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COVIDView: A Weekly Surveillance Summary of U.S. COVID-19 Activity, Week 49 [December 5, 2020]
From the Key Updates: "Nationally, surveillance indicators tracking levels of SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] circulation and associated illnesses have been increasing since September; however, the percentage of emergency department (ED) visits for COVID [coronavirus disease 2019]-like illness (CLI) decreased slightly during week 49. The percentage of deaths due to pneumonia, influenza and COVID-19 (PIC) has been increasing since October. Both COVID-19-associated hospitalizations and PIC mortality for the most recent weeks are expected to increase as more data are received."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-12-05
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MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, December 4, 2020: Summary of Guidance for Public Health Strategies to Address High Levels of Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and Related Deaths, December 2020
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This early release issue of MMWR contains the following: "Summary of Guidance for Public Health Strategies to Address High Levels of Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] and Related Deaths, December 2020." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2020.html].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-12-04
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MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, December 4, 2020
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This issue of MMWR contains the following: "Sex Differences in HIV Testing -- 20 PEPFAR [U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief]-Supported Sub-Saharan African Countries, 2019"; "Multidisciplinary Community-Based Investigation of a COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Outbreak Among Marshallese and Hispanic/Latino Communities -- Benton and Washington Counties, Arkansas, March-June 2020"; "Disproportionate Incidence of COVID-19 Infection, Hospitalizations, and Deaths Among Persons Identifying as Hispanic or Latino -- Denver, Colorado March-October 2020"; "Regional Analysis of Coccidioidomycosis Incidence -- California, 2000-2018"; "Survey of Teen Noise Exposure and Efforts to Protect Hearing at School -- United States, 2020"; "Increase in Hospital-Acquired Carbapenem-Resistant 'Acinetobacter baumannii' Infection and Colonization in an Acute Care Hospital During a Surge in COVID-19 Admissions -- New Jersey, February-July 2020". Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2020.html].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-12-04
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State of the Nation: A 50-State COVID-19 Survey Report #28: Public Support for Measures Aimed at Curbing COVID-19 in Massachusetts
From the Document: "Over 10 survey waves, we polled 139,230 individuals across all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. The data were collected between April and November 2020 by PureSpectrum via an online, nonprobability sample, with state-level representative quotas for race/ethnicity, age, and gender. In addition to balancing on these dimensions, we reweighted our data using demographic characteristics to match the U.S. population with respect to race/ethnicity, age, gender, education, and living in urban, suburban, or rural areas. For this report, we focused on data from Massachusetts: a total of 919 respondents polled between October 1 and November 28. The data was weighed for demographics to match the population of the state."
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.); Harvard Medical School; Rutgers University . . .
Baum, Matthew A., 1965-; Ognyanova, Katherine; Uslu, Ata A. . . .
2020-12-04
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Conduct of Clinical Trials of Medical Products During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Guidance for Industry, Investigators, and Institutional Review Boards
From the Introduction: "FDA plays a critical role in protecting the United States from threats such as emerging infectious diseases, including the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. FDA is committed to providing timely guidance to support response efforts to this pandemic. FDA is issuing this guidance to provide general considerations to assist sponsors in assuring the safety of trial participants, maintaining compliance with good clinical practice (GCP), and minimizing risks to trial integrity for the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency. The appendix to this guidance further explains those general considerations by providing answers to questions that the Agency has received about conducting clinical trials during the COVID-19 public health emergency."
United States. Food and Drug Administration
2020-12-04
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MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, December 3, 2020: The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' Interim Recommendation for Allocating Initial Supplies of COVID-19 Vaccine -- United States, 2020
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This issue of early release MMWR contains the following: "The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' Interim Recommendation for Allocating Initial Supplies of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Vaccine -- United States, 2020." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2020.html].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2020-12-03
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EMR-ISAC: InfoGram, Volume 20 Issue 48, December 3, 2020
The Emergency Management and Response Information Sharing and Analysis Center's (EMR-ISAC) InfoGram is a weekly publication of information concerning the protection of critical infrastructures relevant to members of the Emergency Services Sector. This issue includes the following articles: "Firefighters face increased risk of atrial fibrillation"; "Getting ready for vaccine distribution"; "Response considerations for handling ultra-low temperature vaccines"; "PPE [Personal Protective Equipment] Preservation Planning Toolkit"; and "Cyber Threats."
Emergency Management and Response-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (U.S.)
2020-12-03
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2020 Census: Census Bureau Needs to Ensure Transparency Over Data Quality, Statement of J. Christopher Mihm, Managing Director, Strategic Issues, Testimony Before the Committee on Oversight and Reform, House of Representatives
From the Document: "Today, we are issuing the first in a series of planned reports that will assess the operations of the 2020 Census and identify lessons learned as planning begins for 2030. My statement today is based on that report entitled, '2020 Census: Census Bureau Needs to Assess Data Quality Concerns Stemming from Recent Design Changes'. The report describes the key changes that the Bureau made in response to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] outbreak and how those changes affect the quality of the census. For that work, we reviewed Bureau decision memos and planning documents. We also reviewed Bureau announcements related to the COVID-19 response and any characterizations of the resulting operational changes."
United States. Government Accountability Office
Mihm, J. Christopher
2020-12-03
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Financial Assistance: Lessons Learned from CARES Act Loan Program for Aviation and Other Eligible Businesses, Report to Congressional Committees
From the Highlights: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has resulted in catastrophic loss of life and substantial damage to the global economy, including the aviation sector. U.S. passenger air carriers have lost almost $20 billion and over 47,000 jobs in 2020, with losses forecast to continue into 2021. In March 2020, Congress passed, and the President signed into law, the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act, which provides over $2 trillion in emergency assistance and health care response for individuals, families, and businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, including businesses in the aviation sector. The CARES Act contained a provision for GAO [Government Accountability Office] to review the loans provided under the Act. This report examines, among other things, eligible businesses' participation in the loan program and lessons learned from the program for Congress and Treasury [Department of the Treasury]."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-12
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Pandemic, Social Unrest, and Crime in U.S. Cities (November 2020 Update)
From the Introduction: "This report updates our previous studies of crime changes during the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic and the social unrest sparked by the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25, 2020. The current study extends the crime data to October of 2020. The results are based on ten violent, property, and drug offenses in a sample of 28 United States cities. The results are generally consistent with those of the previous studies, which ended in June and August of 2020, and our conclusions have not changed. Long lasting reductions in violent crime will require subduing the pandemic, pursuing effective crime control strategies, and enacting needed reforms to policing. Detailed discussion of the rationale for the research, research design, and conclusions can be found in the June 2020 study. In this report, we summarize the data, our methods, and the findings from the updated study."
Council on Criminal Justice
Rosenfeld, Richard; Lopez, Ernesto
2020-12
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2020 Census: Census Bureau Needs to Assess Data Quality Concerns Stemming from Recent Design Changes, Report to Congressional Addressees
From the Highlights: "As the Bureau [U.S. Census Bureau] was mailing out invitations to respond to the decennial census and was preparing for fieldwork to count nonresponding households, much of the nation began closing down to contain the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic. [...] This report, the first in a series of retrospective reviews on the 2020 Census, examines the key changes that the Bureau made in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and how those changes affect the cost and quality of the census."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2020-12
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COVID-19 Overdose Crisis: A Pandemic Fueling an Epidemic in Florida in 2020
From the Executive Summary: "Based on the data from the Florida Department of Health [FDOH], all drug overdose deaths (provisional) are up 43% from 2019, 55% from 2018, and overdose deaths are projected (based on FDOH trend analysis) to be 60% higher by the end of 2020."
Project Opioid
Bailey, Andrae; Cortelyou-Ward, Kendall
2020-12?
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COVID-19 Overdose Crisis: Recommendations
This resource contains a number of recommendations for dealing with the opioid overdose crisis during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Project Opioid
2020-12?
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Viral Vulnerability: How the Pandemic is Making Democracy Sick in the Western Balkans
From the Summary: "[1] The covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] crisis has accentuated Western Balkans countries' pre-existing vulnerabilities related to the rule of law and democratic governance - but has not brought about a new political era in the region. [2] Western Balkans governments have often taken selective and arbitrary approaches to applying restrictions in response to the pandemic, sometimes using these measures to silence their critics and opponents. [3] The measures could have the most severe long-term effects of any aspect of the crisis response. [4] They exacerbate the greatest threat to the accession process in the Western Balkans: backsliding on the EU's political criteria. [5] Yet the EU seems less inclined than it once was to allow Western Balkans governments to get away with democratic backsliding just because they align themselves with the bloc geopolitically."
European Council on Foreign Relations
Huszka, Beáta; Lessenska, Tania
2020-12
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AEI Political Report (Volume 16, Issue 11)
This journal is a compilation of citizen polls and the results. Included in this issue are polls comprised of the following topics: 1.) Coronavirus: What Now? 2.) Vaccine Views 3.) Partisans' and Generations' Comfort Levels with Various Activities 4.) Personal Experience 5.) Who We Trust to Handle 6.) Election Legitimacy 2000, 2016 and 2020 and 7.) Ordinary Life: Holiday Cheer. From the document: "Even with encouraging news about vaccines, many Americans believe the worst is yet to come in terms of the coronavirus pandemic, and they have felt this way for some time. At the same time, 47 percent in an Axios/Ipsos online poll are extremely or very concerned about another wave of lockdowns and business closures in their area. Majorities of Americans say wearing a mask in public should be mandatory. In 'The Economist'/YouGov online trend which we note below, around a third in the past two months believe a federal mask requirement is a violation of their civil liberties."
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
2020-12
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Warnings Unheeded, Again: What the Intelligence Lessons of 9/11 Tell Us About the Coronavirus Today
From the Abstract: "This article argues that the coronavirus pandemic represents a global intelligence failure on the part of the traditional intelligence community as well as the national and international medical intelligence and surveillance systems designed to detect and prevent outbreaks just such as this one. Comparing these failures with intelligence failures of the past such as the 9/11 attacks can help us understand how we got to where we are today--and even more important, how we might prevent future disasters by avoiding these failures next time. Today's crisis is very different from previous intelligence failures, but in both the 9/11 attacks and the coronavirus pandemic, the United States was threatened by an enemy that was present in our country well before it was recognized. This article outlines steps that must be taken to ensure that when the next crisis arises, warnings can be sounded, and they will be heeded."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Dahl, Erik J.
2020-12
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How Should the National Guard Be Employed for the Next National Disaster?
From the Abstract: "Since Hurricane Katrina, military emergency managers have warned that military guidance does not adequately inform National Guard employment in large-scale, nationally significant disasters. The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic has turned this hypothetical assertion into a practical shortcoming. While there is very little debate that COVID-19 is a nationally significant natural disaster, there are still doctrinal obstacles to adjudicating the military's responsibility to provide national, state, or local disaster assistance. The United States must be prepared for the next nationally significant threat. For the next COVID-threat there must be a way to adjudicate conversation between lead federal agencies, the DoD, and the National Guard in order to better source Guard resources for large-scale, complex disasters."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Jara, Paul E.
2020-12
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Two Transformations In, USCIS Confronts Further Change in Post-Pandemic Futureure
From the Abstract: "The Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic both upended the day-to-day workings of U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) and presented an opportunity to reexamine where policy and practice impede future productivity. The agency has already undertaken two transformations in the first two decades of this century, to varying success: its reestablishment as an administrative non-enforcement agency after 9/11 helped make it nimble in enacting sudden operational change, but the incomplete modernization (specifically, digitizing documents and records) remains a weakness for shifting workloads in a shelter-in-place environment. Ongoing disruption from the pandemic, including both an unanticipated breakdown in its funding model and a prolonged reduction of in-office productive capacity, requires rethinking how the agency meets its mission post-pandemic. The adoption of 'virtual' or distanced interaction with applicants is emerging as a potentially necessary third major transformation."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Locke, Michael S.
2020-12
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COVID-19 Effects and Russian Disinformation Campaigns
From the Abstract: "The effects of the novel coronavirus and its related disease COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] have been far reaching, touching American society and its Western partners' health and mortality, economics, social relationships, and politics. The effects have highlighted longstanding societal divisions, disproportionately harming minority groups and the socioeconomically disadvantaged with Black Americans and their communities hit especially hard. The problem being considered is the potential for Russian malign foreign influence to exploit the divides exacerbated by the coronavirus and target the United States and its European allies during the period leading to the 2020 elections and beyond. Possible coronavirus effects are inventoried and categorized into economic, healthcare, and environmental issue areas that may be leveraged and weaponized. The article includes the scenarios of such weaponization, including the description of focal points that may be attacked. We conclude with a set of recommendations to counter malign foreign influence."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Moy, Wesley R.; Gradon, Kacper
2020-12
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Public Health Departments Face Formidable Issues During COVID-19 Pandemic
From the Abstract: "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has raised serious questions about the pandemic response capacity and capability of local health departments. Workforce issues have made testing and tracing very challenging for these resource-strapped public health agencies. In addition, public health has failed to respond effectively to the disproportionate COVID-19 cases and deaths occurring within minority populations. Leadership issues have also hampered public health efforts to impact coordinated responses in local communities. Given these challenges, new coalitions of academic, private, and public health providers have begun performing traditional public health disease control measures and raised even more questions about the viability of public health."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Pilkington, William F.; Kumar, Deepak
2020-12
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Pandemic Policy and the Logistics of COVID-19 Mass Vaccination
From the Abstract: "The sudden emergence of the H1N1 Pandemic in 2009 tested the nation's pandemic plans. It was learned that the nation did not have a well-defined, tested and reliable twenty-first century vaccine distribution system. The existing planning model, the public health model of the 1950s and 1960s served as the basis for published planning guidance. In 2020, once again the nation finds itself in the throes of a pandemic, scrambling to limit exposure and infection to a novel coronavirus, COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] . Meanwhile, all efforts are being exerted to produce an effective and safe vaccine. What remains to be seen is what mass vaccination will look like, given that a proven model has yet to be tested, and as new federal guidance is developed and published. This essay explores the status of a COVID-19 vaccination campaign from a distribution perspective or in the context of the Incident Command System, the Logistics Section. It draws from H1N1 and surveys developments implemented in the interim, or the inter-pandemic decade. Finally, the essay takes an historical look at the nation's pandemic vaccine policy and distribution models over the past twenty years. From this analysis, a blended-hybrid model emerges for COVID-19 vaccine distribution whose basis is a public-private partnership."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Russo, Thomas P.
2020-12
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Pennsylvania's COVID-19 Response vs. Homeland Security Frameworks and Research: Masking the Whole Community
From the Abstract: "'This essay offers an intermediate discussion of select policy, strategic, operational, and tactical issues that demonstrate where and how the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's novel coronavirus response on the one hand, and homeland security frameworks and research on the other, converge or--more often so--diverge, and how to narrow this gap. Although typically framed as a pandemic owned by the public health sector, the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] response falls directly within the homeland security mission space, whose core missions include 'Ensuring Resilience to Disasters.' In some respects, Pennsylvania's response exemplifies best practices suggested by research. In other dimensions, it is neither in line with what research would recommend nor with what the National Preparedness System would mandate. The Keystone State has yet to fully make the step from disaster to catastrophe as the characteristic challenge to U.S. emergency management in our century. Response to catastrophic crisis cannot be siloed; it requires adaptivity and an inclusive approach to the community.'"
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Siedschlag, Alexander
2020-12
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COVID-19: Public Health, Privacy, and Law Enforcement a Precarious Balancing Act
From the Abstract: "In the wake of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, the health community faces the delicate balancing act of preserving public health by containing the outbreak, while at the same time insuring that individual health information remains protected. Playing critical roles in both areas during the COVID-19 outbreak are communicable disease reporting systems. Unfortunately, barriers to and delays in sharing health data often compromise the effectiveness of disease mitigation programs. Data must be relevant, accurate, and timely, and communicable disease reporting systems are only as precise and useful as the data that is entered. This essay examines both the successes and the failures of protected health information (PHI) data sharing, reviews the laws and rules governing PHI data sharing for first responders, determines whether the need exists for real-time sharing of PHI, and offers recommendations for future implementation. In addition, it demonstrates that the health information currently available to the first responder community has led to a sense of security and confidence that is undeserved, in part because there is an absence of timely and accurate reporting of such information. Policy and legislation updates must address the needs of both government and the private sector for accurate, timely information reporting by the state's communicable disease reporting system. Health testing capabilities should be expanded and should produce accurate, timely results to accommodate the surge in testing that is necessary to identify the population's infected members."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Whiting, Christopher
2020-12
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Wearables: Useful Sentinels of Our Health?
From the Abstract: "As U.S. Coast Guard units develop strategies and policies aimed at safely reconstituting forces in the next phase of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, the ability to identify and isolate personnel who may be infected as early as possible is critical to protecting the organization's most critical resource. Existing wearable technologies provide the ability to monitor physiological data markers accurately and continuously. While unable to provide a direct diagnosis of COVID-19 infection, these markers may present a viable means for remotely identifying early onset of COVID-19 symptoms, and isolating potentially infected and infectious members. Additionally, the use of wearables has shown potential in some studies to act as a behavior change catalyst, which could enable workforce members to develop improved health and rest habits, leading to a more resilient and virus-resistant workforce. As a military entity, the Coast Guard possesses unique and previously untested authorities regarding the ability to impose a mandatory monitoring program on its members. However, given the political implications of such a strategy, a voluntary program may provide a better option for expeditious implementation. As the Coast Guard seeks short-term ways to protect its members from COVID-19 exposure and long-term strategies to facilitate the development of a more resilient workforce, wearables may provide a supplemental advantage worth their financial investment, though more study is necessary to validate their utility toward that end."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Austin, Matthew S.
2020-12
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Toward a Science-Based Management Approach to Stealth Threats: A Case Study Using the Novel Coronavirus
From the Abstract: "The modest early stage impact of slow-moving threats makes it easy to underestimate their impact. These threats grow and evolve unnoticed until reaching dramatic impacts in both scope and scale. Since slow-moving threats can grow to catastrophic magnitudes that threaten our very survival, they are more aptly identified as 'stealth threats'. The geographic range of stealth threats combined with their impact across multiple sectors impose potentially existential costs to the Nation. As such, we must re-focus the mission of DHS to identify and combat stealth threats. When dealing with stealth threats, there is no instinctive approach that can relate the facts of today to the consequences of tomorrow. Preparing for, and responding to, stealth threats requires a commitment to validated science-based models that predict the impact of the threat. We illustrate these points, and the role of mathematical modeling in emergency response, using the SIR [Susceptible, Infectious, Recovered] growth model of epidemics applied to Covid-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Mackin, Thomas J.
2020-12
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Role of Elected Executives in Pandemic Response: Reflections from Salt Lake County
From the Abstract: "The COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic rages on across the country, with many areas feeling pressure due to the length of the virus' wrath and the associated fatigue of response for all members of the community. As communities look to winter months, where their residents and businesses begin to move indoors, and the threat of influenza sets in, elected leaders need to reinvigorate themselves and their crisis leadership strategy. Elected executives are going to have to exert crisis leadership using the role of navigator as communities yearn for a new normal yet the virus' rampage continues."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
Schuld, David
2020-12
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Implications of State COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plans for People with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
From the Background: "In light of the global COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, governments across the world worked with pharmaceutical companies to develop coronavirus vaccine candidates at a record pace. Here in the United States, the breakneck speed of vaccine development has left state and federal health authorities racing against the clock to devise frameworks for how to distribute vaccines as efficiently as possible to hasten the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most federal and states' vaccine allocation frameworks have rightly prioritized frontline health care workers, residents of long-term care facilities and aging Americans as among the first to receive any vaccine approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). At the same time, these frameworks have largely overlooked an important segment of the population: people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), and the direct support professionals (DSPs) that are essential to their health and well-being. This oversight has the potential for damning effects on the safety and well-being of people with I/DD given the precarious situation in which they find themselves during this pandemic. On the one hand, community-based providers of disability services have done a remarkable job of keeping the people they support isolated from the coronavirus. However, mounting evidence finds that people with I/DD who contract the virus are significantly more likely to die from it."
American Network of Community Options and Resources
2020-12
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Homeland Security Affairs: Volume XVI
From the Website Description: "The December 2020 Special COVID [coronavirus disease] Issue of 'Homeland Security Affairs' features eleven essays which chronicle agency and jurisdictional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons learned thus far. The essays focus on how agencies or jurisdictions changed their operations to deal more effectively with the pandemic, as well as how the conditions of the pandemic constrained normal agency operations."
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Center for Homeland Defense and Security
2020-12
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Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Rural America
From the Introduction: "This analysis begins by providing a baseline for understanding the current state of a geography that comprises 72 percent of the land mass of the United States and is home to 46 million people. It continues with a discussion of the fault lines exposed and deepened by COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] and some of the potential longer-term impacts and scenarios for rural places and people. Ideas are presented for short-term strategic actions to address some of these challenges and longer-term transformative proposals to seize the opportunities for change that the pandemic offers out of the wreckage it has wrought."
Aspen Institute. Community Strategies Group
Dabson, Brian
2020-12
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Digital in the Time of COVID: Trust in the Digital Economy and Its Evolution Across 90 Economies as the Planet Paused for a Pandemic
From the Executive Summary: "At the time of writing, there have been over 61 million COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] cases and over 1.4 million deaths worldwide. The fact that the world economy is expected to contract by 4.4 percent, that most countries around the globe are on the brink of recession, or that global consumer confidence is 5 points lower than its historic average does not seem to fully capture the disruption and distress wrought by the pandemic this year. [...] Even as several promising vaccines are on the horizon, and as we collectively navigate a path out of the pandemic and the worldwide 'pause' that it gave rise to, we hope this work provides decision-makers with the tools to recognize the role of digital technologies during this pause. We also hope that this study of the evolution and state of trust in digitalization can help us harness these very technologies to ensure a more inclusive and resilient future. It is in this context that The Fletcher School at Tufts University, in partnership with Mastercard, present the Digital Intelligence Index. [...] The Digital Intelligence Index is a data-driven holistic evaluation of the progress of the digital economy across 90 economies, combining more than 358 indicators in two scorecards: Digital Evolution and Digital Trust. Digital Evolution contains four key drivers: Supply Conditions, Demand Conditions, Institutional Environment, and Innovation and Change. The resulting framework captures both the state and rate of digital evolution and identifies implications for investment, innovation, and policy priorities."
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Chakravorti, Bhaskar; Chaturvedi, Ravi Shankar; Filipovic, Christina . . .
2020-12
