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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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COVID-19 Demographic Trends, Vaccinating 'High-Contact' People, the Iran Threat Network: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 16, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on how the pandemic is shaping demographic trends, targeting vaccines to "high-contact" people, the Iran Threat Network, and more.
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Demographics
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An Early Look at the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Demographic Trends
Esther M. Friedman @friedmanEM, Andrew M. Parker
Apr 12, 2021
The RAND Blog
Key demographic trends in fertility, mortality, and migration are responsible for shifts in the overall structure of any population. COVID-19 has affected each of these, with potentially important implications.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Teacher Training
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Teachers Lost Out on Professional Learning During the Pandemic. Here's How Summer Programs Could Help
Elizabeth D. Steiner @ED_Steiner, Laura Stelitano
Mar 5, 2021
The RAND Blog
For thousands of teachers across the United States, 2020 was a year of uncertainty. Many lacked access to their usual professional learning activities. Summer programs for students that also offer learning opportunities for teachers might help make up for lost time.
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Vaccination
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Vaccine Hesitancy, Sexual Misconduct in the U.S. Military, the Iran Nuclear Deal: RAND Weekly Recap
Mar 5, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on Black Americans' vaccine hesitancy, sexual harassment and sexual assault in the U.S. military, rejoining the Iran nuclear deal, and more.
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Caregivers
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Family Caregivers Are the Health Care Workers That Vaccination Plans Overlook
Esther M. Friedman @friedmanEM
Mar 1, 2021
Route Fifty
About 53 million family members and friends provide care to loved ones in the United States, representing a critical element of the long-term care system. The pandemic has made family caregivers front-line workers. They can't be left out of important discussions around vaccination priorities and how to minimize the virus's risk to those with compromised health.
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Teachers and Teaching
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Teachers Quit Due to Stress, Peace in Yemen, America's Middle Class: RAND Weekly Recap
Feb 26, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on how stress leads teachers to quit their jobs, U.S. strategy in the Middle East, America's shrinking middle class, and more.
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Health Care Costs
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Reducing Hospital Prices, Vaccinating the Most Active, Myanmar: RAND Weekly Recap
Feb 19, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on regulating hospital prices to cut spending, a COVID-19 vaccine strategy that prioritizes "active" people, what the Capitol attack means for security clearances, and more.
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