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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Health Risk Behaviors
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Learning to Live in a Riskier World
Shanthi Nataraj @ShanthiNataraj, Sita Nataraj Slavov
Jul 2, 2020
Orange County Register
Even as the public discussion about COVID-19 risk becomes increasingly polarized, many Americans are slowly and quietly balancing the threat of infection against valued daily activities, and learning to live in a riskier world.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Preparing for a COVID Surge, Reducing Police Violence, Media Literacy in Schools: RAND Weekly Recap
Jul 2, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on helping hospitals prepare for a surge in COVID-19 infections, an approach to reducing police violence, teachers' concerns about students' media literacy, and more.
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Domestic Violence
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After COVID-19: Prevent Homelessness Among Survivors of Domestic Abuse
Sierra Smucker, Alicia Revitsky Locker, Aisha Najera Chesler
Jul 2, 2020
The RAND Blog
Without assistance, domestic violence survivors—typically women and children—are more likely to be forced into homelessness. Now could be the best time to invest in programs that can help victims get out of unsafe living arrangements and into safe and stable housing before a second wave of COVID-19 cases pushes more families into unsafe environments.
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Health Care Services Capacity
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COVID Could Surge Anywhere. This Tool Helps Hospitals Prepare
Jul 1, 2020
The number of new coronavirus cases is growing in most states. As the pandemic continues to strain U.S. health care systems, a tool developed by RAND researchers can help hospitals prepare for the worst.
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Educational Equity
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Three Steps States Could Take to Make Sure Learning Is More Equitable Should Schools Close Again in the Fall
Julia H. Kaufman @juliahkaufman
Jun 30, 2020
The RAND Blog
The quality of remote instruction depends on whether students can connect and interact with educators online. But poverty is a major driver of who gets high-quality online instruction and who doesn't. What can states do in this new reality?
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Catastrophic Liability Risk Management
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Is It Time for a Federal Pandemic Insurance Program?
Lloyd Dixon, Bethany Saunders-Medina
Jun 26, 2020
The RAND Blog
Insurance companies for the most part are not contractually obligated to cover the enormous business interruption losses caused by social distancing and stay-at-home orders. How should the United States, as a society, design a system for risk spreading and compensation for pandemics, and what roles should insurance and government play in that system?
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The Postal Service, Election Security, Reducing Child Deaths: RAND Weekly Recap
Jun 26, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on the role of the U.S. Postal Service, preparing for the presidential election, reducing child deaths in Nigeria, and more.
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Small Businesses
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Small Businesses Need the Right Kind of Help to Survive the Economic Impact of COVID-19
Joanna Hofman @JoannaBHofman
Jun 26, 2020
The RAND Blog
Small and medium-sized companies are less equipped than large ones to weather the devastating effects of the pandemic. What could policymakers do to help these businesses get the help they need?
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Small Businesses
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A Path to Recovery from COVID-19 for Small Businesses
C. Richard Neu, Diana Gehlhaus, Howard J. Shatz @HowardJShatz
Jun 25, 2020
The RAND Blog
The COVID-19 pandemic has hammered small businesses around the United States. We spoke with 21 small business owners to learn more about the challenges they are facing and how they might best be helped.
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What Elinor Ostrom Teaches Us About Avoiding the 'Tragedy of the Commons' in Delivering the Public Interest in the Post COVID-19 World
Tom Ling
Jun 22, 2020
European Evaluation Society
The public interest can be an elusive concept, especially when trying to distinguish between shared and individual interests, a problem brought into sharper focus as we try to find the right path to a post COVID-19 world. Governments are seeking to do the best for their societies with limited information. As more data is being acquired, how can public policy achieve common interest?
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Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Keep Voters Healthy. Keep Elections Secure. Can the U.S. Do Both?
Quentin E. Hodgson @QHodgson, Jennifer Kavanagh @jekavanagh
Jun 22, 2020
The Baltimore Sun
U.S. adversaries have stepped up cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. The United States should expect these foes to take advantage of the logistical challenges of voting in a COVID-19 world to redouble their efforts against elections.
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Police-Community Relations
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Protests and Police Reform, Facial Recognition, Gun Policies: RAND Weekly Recap
Jun 19, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on protests and police reform after the killing of George Floyd, facial recognition bans, gun policies that likely reduce deaths, and more.
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Social Services and Welfare
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Long-Term Furloughs During COVID-19 Hold Risks for Employee Health and Well-Being
Carol Black, Christian Van Stolk
Jun 15, 2020
The Council for Work and Health
Governments around the world have offered furlough schemes to try to delay employers from making any restructuring decisions during the pandemic. The aims of such programs are laudable. But they may come with unintended consequences.
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Security Cooperation
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As COVID-19 Makes Clear, U.S. Allies in the Indo-Pacific, Not the Money They Pay to Host U.S. Forces, Are the Value Proposition
Jeffrey W. Hornung, Scott W. Harold @ScottWHarold
Jun 12, 2020
The Dlplomat
The great value the United States extracts from its alliances with Japan and South Korea is not the money they provide to offset the costs of hosting U.S. forces; the value is the deep and abiding alliances themselves and the liberal, democratic, rule of law market economies and societies to which they link the United States.
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Air Travel Data to Predict COVID Risk, Heatwave Planning, Caregiver Time Off: RAND Weekly Recap
Jun 12, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on using air travel data to predict COVID risk, planning for a heat wave during the pandemic, why caregivers need time off, and more.
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Work-Family Conflicts
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Working Moms at Risk of Being Left Behind in Economic Recovery
Melanie A. Zaber, Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Jun 11, 2020
United Press International
At the start of 2020, even before the coronavirus pandemic upended daily life, being a working parent was a challenge. To the extent that the pandemic may intensify the perception of parenting being at odds with work, there may be devastating career consequences for both today's and tomorrow's working mothers.
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