Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Public Health Preparedness
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Trust in the CDC, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Russian Mercenaries: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 9, 2021
This weekly recap focuses declining trust in the CDC, insights from educators about teaching students with disabilities, Russian mercenaries, and more.
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Vaccination
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Who Can Effectively Champion the Vax?
Lois M. Davis @LoisMDavis, Michael S. Pollard @MichaelSPollard
Apr 9, 2021
MedPage Today
Vaccine hesitancy appears to be one more hurdle in ending the COVID-19 pandemic. The CDC would typically lead a campaign to overcome it, but Americans' trust in the CDC has declined measurably. Health care professionals may be more effective messengers when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines.
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Vaccination
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Target Vaccine to 'High-Contact' People
Timothy R. Gulden
Apr 9, 2021
The Detroit News
Actively seeking out people with lots of contacts for vaccination could bring the epidemic under control much more quickly than vaccinating people at random. Vaccinating just 15% of the population would be enough to crush the epidemic—so long as it was the right 15%.
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Caregivers
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Rescue Plan Help for Family Caregivers Is a First Step
Alexandra Drane, Molly Coye, Esther M. Friedman
Apr 5, 2021
The RAND Blog
Unpaid caregivers have been a critical part of the functioning U.S. economy, serving as the backbone of the health system, since long before the pandemic started. Adding them to the American Rescue Plan was an important step, but even after the pandemic is over, their financial security will need long-term protection.
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Asian Populations
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Supporting Asian Americans, U.S. Gun Policy, Climate Migrants: RAND Weekly Recap
Mar 26, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on how to support Asian Americans, the U.S. gun policy debate, the education “arms race,” and more.
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Vaccination
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Game Theory to Help the Vaccine Rollout, Abraham Accords, Telehealth: RAND Weekly Recap
Mar 19, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on how game theory can help the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, potential economic benefits of the Abraham Accords, telemedicine use during the pandemic, and more.
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Employment and Unemployment
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Will States Take the Wrong Lesson About Unemployment Insurance's Failings?
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Mar 18, 2021
The RAND Blog
By shoring up all state-run Unemployment Insurance programs equally, Congress set a precedent that it will intervene to raise benefits at no cost to state trust funds. From the states' perspective, why hike taxes on businesses to maintain robust unemployment benefits if Congress will step in when the economy goes south?
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Domestic Violence
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Domestic Violence Support Staff Need More Help to Tackle Challenges of the 'Shadow Pandemic'
Lillian Flemons, Shann Hulme
Mar 15, 2021
Encompass
During the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, European Union states had a 60 percent increase in emergency calls about intimate-partner violence. Amid a protracted second wave that has led to further lockdowns, it may not be too late to provide the funding and legislative changes necessary to ensure domestic violence service providers can offer crucial support.
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Biological Weapons and Warfare
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Could the Bioweapons Treaty Be Another Tool for Addressing Pandemics?
Daniel M. Gerstein @Daniel_Gerstein
Mar 12, 2021
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
What might governments do to reduce the risk of future large-scale biological attacks or naturally occurring pandemics? Perhaps now is the right time to revisit the 46-year-old Biological Weapons Convention treaty and make it a better tool against future biological threats.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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COVID-19 Testing in Schools, Family Caregivers, U.S. Entrepreneurship: RAND Weekly Recap
Mar 12, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19 testing in schools, giving a voice to family caregivers, preparing for daylight saving time, and more.
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Telemedicine
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The Doctor Will Call Me Maybe: The Uncertain Future of Audio-Only Visits and Why We Need Them to Address Disparities
Lori Uscher-Pines, Maggie Jones, Jessica L. Sousa, Zach Predmore, Allison J. Ober
Mar 12, 2021
Health Affairs
Audio-only health care visits have been instrumental in maintaining access to care during the pandemic. Despite this, coverage for audio-only visits is likely temporary. Devaluing and prematurely casting off a key telemedicine modality could mean the difference between a needed doctor visit and no visit at all.
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Community Health and Well-Being
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RAND Staff Member Helps Get Masks to Communities in Need
Mar 12, 2021
Jessica Arana, a designer at RAND, volunteers with the Auntie Sewing Squad, a mask-making effort started by comedian Kristina Wong. Arana first donated to the effort but soon became an organizer focused on minority, immigrant, farmworker, and low-income communities.
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Game Theory
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How Game Theory Could Solve the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Puzzle
Luke Muggy
Mar 11, 2021
Fortune
The health systems behind the vaccine rollout are attempting to create order from chaos, sometimes with mixed results. Rather than relying on on-the-fly decisionmaking, state authorities should consider turning to game theory as a tool that could be the key to more efficient, faster vaccine distribution.
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Sleep
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Don't Let 'Springing Forward' Set You Back in Your Relationship
Wendy M. Troxel @wendytroxel
Mar 10, 2021
Psychology Today
When we're sleep-deprived, we're more irritable, more prone to conflict, our communication skills suffer, and we're less empathic. Here are five tips to help you protect the health of your body and your relationship as you and your partner weather the storm of daylight saving time.
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Employment and Unemployment
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Arts Policy During the Pandemic: What Are We Measuring, and What Can We Know?
James V. Marrone, Susan A. Resetar, Daniel Schwam
Mar 8, 2021
The RAND Blog
Few data sources exist for the labor market for artists. Of the sources that do exist, each measures a different piece of a larger puzzle. Those studying the arts labor market will have to grapple with which data source to use and how “the arts” should be defined before undertaking any analysis.
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Community Health and Well-Being
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What Communities Need to Thrive: Q&A with Anita Chandra
Mar 8, 2021
Anita Chandra, vice president and director of RAND Social and Economic Well-Being, focuses on issues of health, well-being, and equity. She is researching how to create a culture of health, how to address inequities in the U.S. health system, and disaster response and resilience, especially in the context of the pandemic.
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Trust in the CDC, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Russian Mercenaries: RAND Weekly Recap

Who Can Effectively Champion the Vax?

Pros and Cons of Telehealth

The Policy Currents Podcast

Measuring Wellbeing to Help Communities Thrive

Managing Escalation in Crisis and War

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Assessing and Articulating the Wider Benefits of Research

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Trust in the CDC, Teaching Students with Disabilities, Russian Mercenaries: RAND Weekly Recap

Who Can Effectively Champion the Vax?

Target Vaccine to 'High-Contact' People

Rescue Plan Help for Family Caregivers Is a First Step

Supporting Asian Americans, U.S. Gun Policy, Climate Migrants: RAND Weekly Recap

Game Theory to Help the Vaccine Rollout, Abraham Accords, Telehealth: RAND Weekly Recap

Will States Take the Wrong Lesson About Unemployment Insurance's Failings?

Domestic Violence Support Staff Need More Help to Tackle Challenges of the 'Shadow Pandemic'

Could the Bioweapons Treaty Be Another Tool for Addressing Pandemics?

COVID-19 Testing in Schools, Family Caregivers, U.S. Entrepreneurship: RAND Weekly Recap

The Doctor Will Call Me Maybe: The Uncertain Future of Audio-Only Visits and Why We Need Them to Address Disparities

RAND Staff Member Helps Get Masks to Communities in Need

How Game Theory Could Solve the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Puzzle

Don't Let 'Springing Forward' Set You Back in Your Relationship

Arts Policy During the Pandemic: What Are We Measuring, and What Can We Know?

What Communities Need to Thrive: Q&A with Anita Chandra

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