Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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Keeping COVID-19 Vaccines Moving, the Capitol Attack, Media Literacy: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 22, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on keeping COVID-19 vaccines moving to save more lives; why we need a national commission to investigate the U.S. Capitol attack; media literacy as a tool to counter "Truth Decay," and more.
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Bioethics
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Who Gets Care When Hospitals Are Overwhelmed? Clear Policies Are Often Lacking
Lori Frank @LoriBethFrank, Thomas W. Concannon @tconcannon
Jan 21, 2021
The RAND Blog
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge to new highs, states, health systems, and the public continue to need clarity on health care resource allocation policy. A RAND checklist provides clear and consistent criteria for structuring such difficult decisions.
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Logistics Management
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Keep the Vaccine Moving to Save the Most Lives
Carter C. Price @CarterCPrice, John F. Raffensperger
Jan 19, 2021
The RAND Blog
The United States is waiting to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and millions of doses wait for arms. Policymakers at the national, state, and local levels have been stockpiling the shots for many reasons. While supply ramps up, policymakers could push to deliver vaccine to people instead of freezers.
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Vaccination
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Getting COVID-19 Vaccines to Pennsylvania Residents
Adam C. Resnick
Jan 19, 2021
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pennsylvania state and county health departments have a number of options that could speed the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to make sure Pennsylvania residents at high risk for severe COVID-19 outcomes are vaccinated as soon as possible.
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Work-Family Conflicts
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Supporting Working Parents Could Accelerate Recovery
Melanie A. Zaber, Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Jan 15, 2021
The RAND Blog
Since the COVID-19 recession started last February, almost 3 million women have left the labor force. With vaccines rolling out, will they go back to work? There are several policies that could help.
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Domestic Terrorism
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Political Violence, COVID-19 Vaccine Questions, Mental Health Care: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 15, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on why we need to brace for more political violence after the Capitol attack, COVID-19 vaccine questions and answers, how to reform the U.S. mental health system, and more.
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Communities
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COVID-19 Has Offered Opportunities for Communities to Come Together
Katherine Grace Carman @KGCarman, Tamara Dubowitz @TamaraDubowitz, Christopher Nelson
Jan 13, 2021
The RAND Blog
The past year has been among the most turbulent in recent memory. Might recent crises provide a catalyst for a renewed sense of civic engagement that transcends some of the race and class divisions COVID-19 has exacerbated?
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Public Health Preparedness
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COVID-19 Options for 2021
Rafiq Dossani
Jan 12, 2021
The RAND Blog
The disorganized public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States helped ensure that the nation led the world in infections nearly from the beginning of the pandemic. With vaccines now becoming available, are we over the problem? Not necessarily.
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Vaccination
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As the Vaccines Arrive, So Do the Questions
Jan 11, 2021
The RAND Blog
As the first COVID-19 vaccines are being administered across the United States, countless questions have arisen about what comes next. Is one vaccine better than another? Can the United States both speed up inoculation and overcome some people's hesitance to get the shot? RAND experts offer insights into the historic vaccine rollout.
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Domestic Terrorism
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A Message from Our President, Medical Mistrust, Insulin Prices: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 8, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on Wednesday’s siege on the U.S. Capitol, Americans' psychological distress, medical mistrust and COVID-19 vaccines, and more.
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Employment and Unemployment
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A Bell That Can't Be Unrung: The CARES Act and Unemployment Insurance
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Jan 7, 2021
The RAND Blog
The CARES Act broadcasted to everyone that Unemployment Insurance can do better by workers and employers. Congress can debate the hows of permanent reform, but its actions in 2020 proved the need.
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Telemedicine
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Patients Log On to See Their Own Doctors During the Pandemic
Shira H. Fischer @ShiraFischer, Joshua Breslau @JoshuaBreslau
Jan 7, 2021
The RAND Blog
Telehealth use has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Can this form of high-quality, low-cost care be maintained over the long term? As discussion of post-pandemic policies begins, lessons from patients' use of telehealth will provide valuable guidance.
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Employment and Unemployment
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Without Unemployment Benefits, How Might Americans Make Ends Meet?
Kathryn A. Edwards @keds_economist
Dec 30, 2020
The RAND Blog
Do unemployment benefits keep people from accepting jobs? What effect do they have on the economy? Researchers and policymakers have been debating these issues since COVID-19 led to widespread job losses last spring.
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Vaccination
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Vaccine Nationalism May Seem Inevitable, but There Are Real Economic Consequences
Marco Hafner
Dec 30, 2020
Business Insider
Vaccine nationalism, in which countries prioritize their domestic needs at the expense of others, will have significant global economic consequences. Major economies actually have more to gain by helping to make an effective COVID-19 vaccine widely available globally.
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Students
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Unpacking COVID-19's Long-Term Effects on Students
Jonathan Schweig, Andrew McEachin @AJMcEachin, Megan Kuhfeld
Dec 29, 2020
The RAND Blog
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented set of obstacles for schools and exacerbated existing structural inequalities in public education. It may take years to unpack how the pandemic affected student learning and social and emotional development and to identify any lasting effects on low-income communities and communities of color.
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Educational Equity
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Teleworking During the COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights Educational Inequity
Jason M. Ward
Dec 23, 2020
The RAND Blog
The ability to telework is associated with both reduced risk of COVID-19 infection and with significantly lower risk of job loss during the pandemic. There are large disparities in who is able to telework by race and ethnicity—but even larger ones by educational attainment.
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Europeans already spend a lot on defense, but that spending is undercut by the redundancies and inefficiencies associated with so many countries building separate forces to serve separate political ends and nurture separate defense industries. The best remedy for that could be collectivization, or at the very least significantly greater coordination.

Michael Shurkin

Senior Political Scientist

Source: RealClearWorld

Insulated from the partisan passions that sunder our politics and our society, a January 6 Commission created by Congress or the Biden administration could analyze whether this was an isolated uprising or the harbinger of more to come. It could make recommendations to prevent such attacks in the future in Washington or at statehouses throughout the country.

Brian Michael Jenkins

Senior Adviser to the RAND President

Source: Los Angeles Times

What Role Will Telehealth Play After COVID-19?

Rethinking the U.S. Approach to the World

Keeping COVID-19 Vaccines Moving, the Capitol Attack, Media Literacy: RAND Weekly Recap

Welcoming a Stronger European Defense

Overcoming Hurdles to Herd Immunity

The Policy Currents Podcast

Getting to Know Military Caregivers and Their Needs

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Lightening Body Armor

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Keeping COVID-19 Vaccines Moving, the Capitol Attack, Media Literacy: RAND Weekly Recap

Who Gets Care When Hospitals Are Overwhelmed? Clear Policies Are Often Lacking

Keep the Vaccine Moving to Save the Most Lives

Getting COVID-19 Vaccines to Pennsylvania Residents

Supporting Working Parents Could Accelerate Recovery

Political Violence, COVID-19 Vaccine Questions, Mental Health Care: RAND Weekly Recap

COVID-19 Has Offered Opportunities for Communities to Come Together

COVID-19 Options for 2021

As the Vaccines Arrive, So Do the Questions

A Message from Our President, Medical Mistrust, Insulin Prices: RAND Weekly Recap

A Bell That Can't Be Unrung: The CARES Act and Unemployment Insurance

Patients Log On to See Their Own Doctors During the Pandemic

Without Unemployment Benefits, How Might Americans Make Ends Meet?

Vaccine Nationalism May Seem Inevitable, but There Are Real Economic Consequences

Unpacking COVID-19's Long-Term Effects on Students

Teleworking During the COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights Educational Inequity

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