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COVID-19 Testing in K-12 Schools: Insights from Early Adopters
From the Webpage: "To help schools safely return to in-person instruction and expand coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing of teachers, other staff, and students, it will be imperative to successfully scale up and spread promising practices from K-12 [kindergarten-12th grade] schools and districts that were early adopters of COVID-19 testing in the fall semester of 2020. This report describes approaches that early adopters of COVID-19 testing in U.S. K-12 schools were using as of December 2020, highlighting key facilitators that made testing feasible, acceptable, and effective in these schools. In the first half of the report, the authors describe the landscape of testing as of December 2020, summarize the benefits and costs of early adopters' testing programs, and offer recommendations to school leaders, district officials, and policymakers for implementing feasible, acceptable, and effective COVID-19 testing in K-12 schools. They then profile COVID-19 testing programs in selected schools, districts, and states, with a focus on describing the practical details of their testing approaches, challenges they had to overcome, and key factors that facilitated their efforts."
RAND Corporation
Faherty, Laura J.; Master, Benjamin K.; Steiner, Elizabeth D. . . .
2021
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Early Insights from the Equity-First Vaccination Initiative
From the Document: "As of early November 2021, more than 78 percent of U.S. adults had received at least one dose of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine. However, vaccination rates among communities that identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) continue to lag relative to their shares of the total population. Even more striking are inequities by race and ethnicity in vaccination rates relative to COVID-19 mortality. For instance, Black non-Latinx Chicago residents accounted for 40 percent of deaths from COVID-19 but only 21 percent of those who are fully vaccinated. [...] The Equity-First Vaccination Initiative (EVI), supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, aims to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States and, over the longer term, strengthen the public health system to achieve more-equitable outcomes. [...] The EVI has also engaged several additional partners, including the RAND Corporation, to support the CBOs [community-based organizations] in measuring, evaluating, and scaling up their learning. These partners [1] facilitate an inclusive and equity-focused learning community; [2] provide technical assistance to counter misinformation and disinformation and develop evidence-based messaging around COVID-19 vaccination; [and 3] support CBOs' data collection and analysis to inform their vaccination approaches and track progress. This brief focuses on strategies to 'increase access to COVID-19 vaccination'; other products will report on communication and messaging efforts by the CBOs."
RAND Corporation
Faherty, Laura J.; Ringel, Jeanne S.; Williams, Malcolm V. . . .
2021
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U.S. Equity-First Vaccination Initiative: Early Insights
From the Document: "The Equity-First Vaccination Initiative (EVI) aims to reduce racial disparities in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination rates in the United States and, over the longer term, to strengthen the public health system to achieve more-equitable outcomes. To accomplish these goals, The Rockefeller Foundation has funded demonstration sites in Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; Houston, Texas; Newark, New Jersey; and Oakland, California, to plan and implement hyper-local, place-based strategies to increase vaccine confidence and access for communities that identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). This interim report introduces the initiative and the anchor partners in each of the five demonstration sites, highlights the initial work of selected community-based organizations to which the anchor partners are making subgrants, synthesizes lessons learned across the EVI in its first three months, and suggests policy implications for decisionmakers to consider as they seek to support hyper-local, community-driven efforts to reduce inequities in COVID-19 vaccination."
RAND Corporation
Faherty, Laura J.; Ringel, Jeanne S.; Williams, Malcolm V. . . .
2021-12
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School and Preparedness Officials' Perspectives on Social Distancing Practices to Reduce Influenza Transmission During a Pandemic: Considerations to Guide Future Work
From the Abstract: "The objective of this qualitative study was to explore the perspectives of school and preparedness officials on the feasibility of implementing a range of social distancing practices to reduce influenza transmission during a pandemic. In the summer of 2017, we conducted 36 focus groups by teleconference and webinar lasting 90 min with school and preparedness stakeholders from across the United States. We identified and characterized 11 themes arising from the focus group protocol's domains as well as unanticipated emergent themes. These themes were: the need for effective stakeholder communication, the importance of partnering for buy-in, the role of social distancing in heightening anxiety, ensuring student safety, how practices work in combination, challenges with enforcement, lack of funding for school nurses, differing views about schools' role in protecting public health, the need for education and community engagement to ensure consistent implementation, the need for collaborative decision-making, and tension between standardizing public health guidance and adapting to local contexts. Addressing several crosscutting considerations can increase the likelihood that social distancing practices will be feasible and acceptable to school stakeholders."
Elsevier
Faherty, Laura J.; Schwartz, Heather L.; Uscher-Pines, Lori . . .
2019-04-06
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U.S. Equity-First Vaccination Initiative: Early Insights [2022]
From the Document: "The Equity-First Vaccination Initiative (EVI) aims to reduce racial disparities in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination rates in the United States and, over the longer term, to strengthen the public health system to achieve more-equitable outcomes. To accomplish these goals, The Rockefeller Foundation has funded demonstration sites in Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; Houston, Texas; Newark, New Jersey; and Oakland, California, to plan and implement hyper-local, place-based strategies to increase vaccine confidence and access for communities that identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). This interim report introduces the initiative and the anchor partners in each of the five demonstration sites, highlights the initial work of selected community-based organizations to which the anchor partners are making subgrants, synthesizes lessons learned across the EVI in its first three months, and suggests policy implications for decisionmakers to consider as they seek to support hyper-local, community-driven efforts to reduce inequities in COVID-19 vaccination."
RAND Corporation
Faherty, Laura J.; Ringel, Jeanne S.; Williams, Malcolm V. . . .
2022
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