The COVID-19 pandemic has very quickly challenged the American people and our policy makers at every level in an almost unprecedented fashion. The public policy response to the crisis has been uneven across the states and the federal response is still unfolding through negotiations between Congress and the Trump Administration and is likely to continue in a developmental mode well into the future.
Public Policy and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has very quickly challenged the American people and our policy makers at every level in an almost unprecedented fashion. The public policy response to the crisis has been uneven across the states and the federal response is still unfolding through negotiations between Congress and the Trump Administration and is likely to continue in a developmental mode well into the future. We will be linking information about the policy implications of the pandemic and policy initiatives to contain and compensate victims of the pandemic to this section of our pandemic site. In this section we will house information about initiatives like the CARES act and other legislation and executive actions centered around the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in the United States. Responses by federal agencies, as well as state and local governments, centered on or resulting from the spreading pandemic will be included here.
This section on public policy amid COVID-19 is one of many sections the Claude Pepper Center has developed in response to the pandemic, and we are expanding our coverage daily. Other sections detail COVID-19’s impact on Long Term Care, the medical field, the economy, and many other aspects. The impact is likely to be felt both in this country and around the world for many years to come.
Reports:
- Strong Social Distancing Measures In The United States Reduced the COVID-19 Growth Rate (Health Affairs)
- Forecasting Estimates of Poverty during the COVID-19 Crisis (Columbia University)
- SARS-CoV-2 in environmental samples of quarantined households (University Bonn)
- The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic (Nature)
- Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe (Nature)
Important Links
- ‘We want them infected’: Trump appointee demanded ‘herd immunity’ strategy, emails reveal (Politico)
- The Logic of Pandemic Restrictions Is Falling Apart (The Atlantic)
- Blue states are blowing the Covid-19 response, too. We need a national response (CNN)
- What Biden Can Do to Combat COVID Right Now (KHN)
- As Broad Shutdowns Return, Weary Californians Ask ‘Is This the Best We Can Do?’ (KHN)
- The coronavirus emergency is worsening by the second. We must take immediate action. (The Washington Post)
- US health official says pandemic clearly can be controlled (AP News)
- White House signals defeat in pandemic as coronavirus outbreak roils Pence’s office (The Washington Post)
- ‘We’re not going to control the pandemic’: White House chief’s comments undermine Trump’s message (Politico)
- America and the Virus: ‘A Colossal Failure of Leadership’ (The New York Times)
- Ex-FDA head: White House coronavirus strategy of waiting for vaccine is “problematic” (Axios)
- WHO is right: lockdowns should be short and sharp. Here are 4 other essential COVID-19 strategies (The Conversation)
- I thought Trump couldn’t handle the virus any worse than he already had. I was wrong. (The Washington Post)
- The Health 202: Health officials call an anti-lockdown paper ‘dangerous.’ Its authors say they just want the idea debated. (The Washington Post)
- Protecting the profits of a few could prevent vaccine access for all (The Hill)
- A Dose of Optimism, as the Pandemic Rages On (The New York Times)
- Proposal to hasten herd immunity to the coronavirus grabs White House attention but appalls top scientists (The Washington Post)
- Dying in a Leadership Vacuum (New England Journal of Medicine)
- In the U.S., states — not science — decide what counts as a coronavirus outbreak (The Washington Post)
- Preventing next pandemic requires new bill’s global solutions (The Hill)
- The Mask Hypocrisy: How COVID Memos Contradict the White House’s Public Face (KHN)
- This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic (The Atlantic)
- How America Lost 200,000 Lives to Covid-19 (The New York Times)
- Let’s not lose our 3rd chance to contain COVID-19: OPINION (ABC News)
- We’ve reached 200,000 deaths. Our response has gotten even worse than it was at 100,000. (The Washington Post)
- Despite Claims, Trump Rarely Uses Wartime Law in Battle Against Covid (The New York Times)
- A ‘distressed’ Birx questions how long she can remain on White House task force, sources say (CNN)
- Trump says he might reject stricter FDA vaccine guidelines (Politico)
- FDA to soon issue tougher emergency vaccine standards: report (The Hill)
- 200,000 American lives lost from COVID-19: Here’s what we’ve learned (ABC News)
- CDC retraction shows chaos of Trump’s Covid response (CNN)
- Signs of an ‘October Vaccine Surprise’ Alarm Career Scientists (KHN)
- What sets apart countries that successfully handled the pandemic? Failure. (The Washington Post)
- Trump’s attacks highlight CDC’s stumbles on public health messaging (STAT)
- Stop Expecting Life to Go Back to Normal Next Year (The New York Times)
- Pandemic preparedness panel slams collective failure to heed warnings (Reuters)
- America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral (The Atlantic)
- The Unique U.S. Failure to Control the Virus (The New York Times)
- Dear Commissioner Hahn: Tell the Truth or Resign (Medscape)
- Trump’s disastrous virus response is veering toward another terrible turn (The Washington Post)
- Op-Ed: How politics and muddled CDC messaging helped doom U.S. efforts to fight coronavirus (Los Angeles Times)
- White House privately warned states of Covid-19 ‘red zone’ threat, records show (Politico)
- Controversial doctor gives Trump highly dubious advice on pandemic (MSNBC)
- Opening up without control of COVID-19 is recipe for disaster, says WHO (Reuters)
- To improve our dismal Covid-19 performance, establish common ground between lockdown and open economy (STAT)
- Coronavirus is spreading in schools, but the federal government isn’t keeping count (NBC News)
- Politics Slows Flow of US Pandemic Relief Funds to Public Health Agencies (KHN)
- New York Has Tamed the Virus. Can It Hold Off a Second Wave? (The New York Times)
- Winter is coming: Why America’s window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing (STAT)
- As a grim fall approaches, Trump team feels increasingly confident (Politico)
- The Great Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020—7 Critical Lessons (JAMA)
- Businesses Want a Shield Against COVID-19 Lawsuits. But What About Customer Safety? (PEW)
- America’s uniquely bad Covid-19 epidemic, explained in 18 maps and charts (Vox)
- 26 states will soon face shortage of ICU doctors (ABC News)
- ‘If I Hadn’t Been Transferred, I Would Have Died’ (The New York Times)
- Here’s How to Crush the Virus Until Vaccines Arrive (The New York Times)
- The problem with holding up Sweden as an example for coronavirus response (The Hill)
- 5 former CDC directors on where US went wrong in its COVID-19 response (ABC News)
- Virus keeps spreading as schools begin to open, frightening parents and alarming public health officials (The Washington Post)
- The Unique U.S. Failure to Control the Virus (The New York Times)
- The world has shown it’s possible to avert Covid-caused election meltdowns. But the U.S. is unique. (Politico)
- ‘Too many are selfish’: US nears 5 million virus cases (AP News)
- 50,000 more people are dead, and there’s no end in sight. It didn’t have to be this way. (The Washington Post)
- Coronavirus threat rises across U.S.: ‘We just have to assume the monster is everywhere’ (The Washington Post)
- A variety of responses by US states hurt the country’s ability to contain the coronavirus pandemic, Fauci says (CNN)
- A Viral Epidemic Splintering Into Deadly Pieces (The New York Times)
- World Health Organization: Coronavirus pandemic is ‘one big wave’ (The Hill)
- Let’s throw the kitchen sink at covid-19 and get back to normal by October (The Washington Post)
- US gets reality checks on Covid-19 vaccine, duration of symptoms (CNN)
- The key lesson from school openings abroad: Contain the virus (Vox)
- How California went from coronavirus success story to disaster — and how it can regain control (The Washington Post)
- As shutdowns loom, report says poor COVID-19 data hampered US response (CIDRAP)
- How New York has been able to keep coronavirus at bay while other states see surges (ABC News)
- Why We’re Losing the Battle With Covid-19 (The New York Times Magazine)
- Public’s disconnect from COVID-19 reality worries experts (The Hill)
- ‘From worst to first’: These states have tamed coronavirus, even after reopening. Here’s how they’re doing it, and why they can’t let up (CNN)
- America Should Prepare for a Double Pandemic (The Atlantic)
- The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse. We Must Act Now. (The New York Times)
- How I changed my mind on ‘Medicare For All’ (The Hill)
- The U.S. is the accidental Sweden, which could make the fall ‘catastrophic’ for Covid-19 (STAT)
- How McKinsey Is Making $100 Million (and Counting) Advising on the Government’s Bumbling Coronavirus Response (ProPublica)
- Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus (AP News)
- Trump administration’s delayed use of 1950s law leads to critical supplies shortages (CNN)
- America Drank Away Its Children’s Future (The New York Times)
- Fauci blames virus surge on U.S. not shutting down completely (Reuters)
- States that reopened too quickly amid coronavirus are facing a problem: Getting the genie back in the bottle (ABC News)
- Smart countries have the edge in fighting covid-19. The United States isn’t one of them. (The Washington Post)
- Those right-wingers who praised Sweden’s response to COVID-19 are looking pretty stupid now (AlterNet)
- Americans made ‘tremendous sacrifices.’ The great reopening of the pandemic summer still got derailed (CNN)
- When It Comes To Reopening Schools, ‘The Devil’s In The Details,’ Educators Say (npr)
- Trump trashes CDC school-reopening guidelines — then CDC updates them (CNN)
- The Pandemic Experts Are Not Okay (The Atlantic)
- Analysis: How A COVID-19 Vaccine Could Cost Americans Dearly (KHN)
- The Daily 202: Some U.S. health officials lament a coronavirus crisis that didn’t need to happen (The Washington Post)
- How America Lost the War on Covid-19 (The New York Times)
- New rules: Foreign pupils must leave US if classes go online (AP News)
- Situation ‘really not good’ as new COVID-19 cases break records: Fauci (ABC News)
- To save lives, get partisanship out of public health science (STAT)
- Americans sacrificed to flatten the curve. Their leaders have let them down. (The Washington Post)
- Hospitals must treat infection control as a priority, not a profit center (STAT)
- Six Takeaways Of The KHN-AP Investigation Into The Erosion Of Public Health (KHN)
- Hollowed-Out Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus (KHN)
June’s Important Links
- California and Florida are charting different coronavirus paths as cases spike (CNN)
- Death threats, shoves, and throwing blood: Anti-vaxxers’ bullying of public health officials endangers our country (STAT)
- Experts are calling for a 9/11-style commission on U.S. coronavirus response. Here’s where it could start (STAT)
- The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead (The New York Times)
- As Covid-19 cases peak, a virus once again takes advantage of human instinct (STAT)
- Why Trump’s focus on falling death rates could be dangerous (Politico)
- Seniors In Low-Income Housing Live In Fear Of COVID Infection (KHN)
- A Devastating New Stage of the Pandemic (The Atlantic)
- From China to Germany, the World Learns to Live With the Coronavirus (The New York Times)
- Officials Seek To Shift Resources Away From Policing To Address Black ‘Public Health Crisis’ (KHN)
- AP FACT CHECK: Sober science weighs in on Trump’s virus take (AP News)
- US COVID-19 cases rise, marking ugly contrast with Europe (The Hill)
- Coronavirus is pushing the US child care industry to the brink of collapse: Advocates (ABC News)
- Surging US virus cases raise fear that progress is slipping (AP News)
- The Health 202: Trump claims an increase in coronavirus cases is due to more testing. That isn’t true anymore. (The Washington Post)
- Behind the Conflicting Advice on Coronavirus Safety (New Republic)
- How many needless Covid-19 deaths were caused by delays in responding? Most of them (STAT)
- Next testing debacle: The fall virus surge (Politico)
- What Colorado is getting right about reopening (Politico)
- Dr. Fauci delivers a disturbing revelation about the US’ pandemic infrastructure at the beginning of COVID-19 (AlterNet)
- Why a second round of Covid-19 lockdowns might not be as effective (Vox)
- Coronavirus recommendations ignored as case numbers rise (The Washington Post)
- Three weeks after Memorial Day, the coronavirus is surging dangerously in states that opened quickly (The Washington Post)
- CDC urges organizers of large gatherings to “strongly encourage” use of face masks (The Washington Post)
- Public Health Officials Face Wave Of Threats, Pressure Amid Coronavirus Response (KHN)
- A revolt against wearing masks creates a new coronavirus danger as California reopens (Los Angeles Times)
- A devastating second wave is possible. But there are ways to avert it. (The Washington Post)
- The 2020 International Profiles of Health Care Systems: A Useful Resource for Interpreting Country Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic (The Commonwealth Fund)
- Study: Risk of severe COVID-19 imperils millions of uninsured (CIDRAP)
- States are wrestling on their own with how to expand testing, with little guidance from the Trump administration (The Washington Post)
- Google and Apple’s rules for virus tracking apps sow division among states (Politico)
- Widespread mask-wearing could prevent COVID-19 second waves: study (Reuters)
- A devastating second wave is possible. But there are ways to avert it. (The Washington Post)
- Society Is Reopening. Prepare To Hunker Down At Home Again. (KHN)
- America Is Giving Up on the Pandemic (The Atlantic)
- New York City exits coronavirus lockdown but enters a new crisis (CNN)
- On the Minds of Black Lives Matter Protesters: A Racist Health System (ProPublica)
- South Korea’s Success Against COVID-19 (The Regulatory Review)
- Is the Secret to Japan’s Virus Success Right in Front of Its Face? (The New York Times)
- America could learn a lot from the state hit hardest by COVID-19 — if only Republicans would listen (AltnerNet)
- How South Korea Responded to the Covid-19 Outbreak in Daegu (New England Journal of Medicine)
- What the C.D.C. Did Wrong, and Why (The New York Times)
- The world will starve if we keep ignoring disease outbreaks (The Hill)
- COVID-19 Nursing Home Audits Show Progress, Concerns (wbur)
- How the world can avoid screwing up the response to Covid-19 again (STAT)
- Mass arrests jeopardizing the health of protesters, police (Politico)
- We need a new framework to solve problems in the wake of COVID-19 (The Hill)
- Don’t use ‘deaths of despair’ as rationale for reopening the country too soon (STAT)
- States brace for disasters as pandemic collides with hurricane season (Politico)
May’s Important Links
- Trump: U.S. will terminate relationship with the World Health Organization in wake of Covid-19 pandemic (STAT)
- Tennessee’s Secret To Plentiful Coronavirus Testing? Picking Up The Tab (KHN)
- Indoor spread of COVID-19 can be lessened, experts say (CIDRAP)
- Some Countries Have Brought New Cases Down To Nearly Zero. How Did They Do It? (NPR)
- 100,000 Lives Lost to COVID-19. What Did They Teach Us? (ProPublica)
- The Health 202: Americans are not expecting a quick return to normal. Or a vaccine next year. (The Washington Post)
- Should the U.S. favor public health or the economy? History shows they’re inseparable. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- What if America Had Followed Sweden? (The Wall Street Journal)
- Coronavirus has killed more than 100,000 people across the US (CNN)
- Trump Team Killed Rule Designed To Protect Health Workers From Pandemic Like COVID-19 (NPR)
- US braces for COVID-19 ‘slow burn’ (The Hill)
- New research rewrites history of when Covid-19 took off in the U.S. — and points to missed chances to stop it (STAT)
- Trump Team Killed Rule Designed To Protect Health Workers From Pandemic Like COVID-19 (NPR)
- Could a second wave of coronavirus trigger new stay-at-home orders? States can’t agree. (Politico)
- WHO warns of ‘second peak’ in areas where COVID-19 declining (Reuters)
- Reopening too soon: Lessons from the deadly second wave of the 1918 flu pandemic (The Washington Post)
- The big failure of small government (Social Europe)
- The government has spent decades studying what a life is worth. It hasn’t made a difference in the covid-19 crisis. (The Washington Post)
- The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do Right Now (The New York Times)
- The government has spent decades studying what a life is worth. It hasn’t made a difference in the covid-19 crisis. (The Washington Post)
- There is one ingredient essential to reopening the economy, and still no federal plan to get it (The Washington Post)
- NOAA sees busy hurricane season, as pandemic strains emergency services (Politico)
- Cuomo, de Blasio blame ignorance, but not themselves, in wake of damning report (Politico)
- Nationwide survey: Most nurses have not been tested for COVID-19 and are forced to reuse face masks (Florida Phoenix)
- Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives, Data Show (The New York Times)
- America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further (The Atlantic)
- New cases? Deaths? U.S. states’ reopening plans are all over the map (Reuters)
- As of Wednesday, every state will be somewhere along the road toward a full reopening (CNN)
- Lockdowns worked. Now what? (Vox)
- Rising deaths, busy restaurants: Washington region’s reopening a study in jarring contrasts (The Washington Post)
- Know the risks: Where you are most likely to get coronavirus (ABC)
- Getting it right: States struggle with contact tracing push (Politico)
- Germany Is Reopening. And Learning a Tough Lesson. (The New York Times)
- How Pandemics End (The New York Times)
- Reviving the US CDC (The Lancet)
- CDC releases scaled-back guidance on reopening after White House blocked earlier release (CDC)
- Trump: Coronavirus testing may be ‘overrated’ and reason for high U.S. case count (Politico)
- The Health 202: Trump’s claim coronavirus vaccine coming by year’s end undercut by ousted vaccine official (The Washington Post)
- Ousted Scientist Says His Pandemic Warnings Were Dismissed As ‘Commotion’ (NPR)
- AP Exclusive: CDC guidance more restrictive than White House (AP News)
- Fauci warns reopening country too fast could be ‘really serious’ for states (Politico)
- He warned of the COVID-19 pandemic early on — now he says ‘we completely blew it’ (AlterNet)
- The Health 202: Most states lifting coronavirus lockdowns haven’t met federal guidelines for reopening (The Washington Post)
- Foreign Affairs Runs Propaganda from Swedish Employers on Sweden’s Covid-19 Fiasco, Failing to Disclose Sponsorship and Misrepresenting Results (naked capitalism)
- We Saw It Coming—What Did We Get Right, and What Did We Miss? (Journal of Healthcare Management)
- 4 reasons state plans to open up may backfire — and soon (Vox)
- Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next. (Politico)
- Analysis: We Knew The Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed 5 Critical Tests (KHN)
- If 80% of Americans Wore Masks, COVID-19 Infections Would Plummet, New Study Says (Vanity Fair)
- Six flaws in the arguments for reopening (The Washington Post)
- Three Workforce Strategies To Help COVID Affected Communities (Health Affairs)
- Reopenings bring new cases in S. Korea, virus fears in Italy (AP News)
- Most States That Are Reopening Fail to Meet White House Guidelines (The New York Times)
- As Trump Pushes to Reopen, Government Sees Virus Toll Nearly Doubling (The New York Times)
- Democrats make case for role of government in virus response (AP News)
- California was one of the first states to issue a stay-at-home order. Tomorrow, it’ll start to reopen (CNN)
- The case for ending the Covid-19 pandemic with mass testing (Vox)
- Gainesville has become hot spot for coronavirus cases in Georgia, a state just starting to reopen (CNN)
- The Hammer and the Dance: Why Reopening Now Will Kill (The Hill)
- What’s Behind South Korea’s COVID-19 Exceptionalism? (The Atlantic)
- On coronavirus, we know who will pay the price when states reopen before they should (USA Today)
- States cut Medicaid as millions of jobless workers look to safety net (Politico)
- None of the states starting to reopen have met White House guidelines, researcher says (CNN)
- US infection rate rising outside New York as states open up (AP News)
- Johns Hopkins’ ideas for better preparedness after COVID-19 (Modern Healthcare)
- With New Hot Spots Emerging, No Sign of a Respite (The New York Times)
- What if we haven’t seen the worst of this pandemic yet? (The Washington Post)
- Missing from America’s fight against COVID-19: Vision and boldness (The Hill)
- Coronavirus and the Sweden Myth (The New York Times)
- See Which States Are Reopening and Which Are Still Shut Down (The New York Times)
- How New Mexico Is Beating the Virus (The New York Times)
- State openings bring risks and huge stakes for America — and Trump (CNN)
- Federal COVID-19 physical distancing measures expire, more states reopen (CIDRAP)
- As expected, COVID-19 infections and deaths are still rising as FL launches first phase of reopening (Florida Phoenix)
- The coming second peak of coronavirus (Boston Globe)
April’s Important Links
- UN chief: World should follow South Korea on COVID-19 fight (Boston Globe)
- Conservative Americans see coronavirus hope in progressive Sweden (Politico)
- States weigh workers’ comp for frontline workers against the cost (Politico)
- A tale of two summers: White House diverges from health experts over what’s to come (NBC News)
- As death toll passes 60,000, Trump’s team searches for an exit strategy (Politico)
- End of Trump’s social distancing policy spurs fears of virus rebound (Politico)
- We need the real CDC back, and we need it now (STAT)
- Sweden says its coronavirus approach has worked. The numbers suggest a different story (CNN)
- US could be in for ‘a bad fall and a bad winter’ if it’s unprepared for a second wave of coronavirus, Fauci warns (CNN)
- One Thing the Pandemic Hasn’t Stopped: Aggressive Medical-Debt Collection (ProPublica)
- The unlikely alliance trying to rescue workplace health insurance (Politico)
- Five things to know about where the US stands on COVID-19 tests (The Hill)
- Reopening Means Contact Tracing. Many States Aren’t Ready. (PEW)
- Workers turn to courts and states for safety protection as Trump declines to act (Politico)
- ‘A Ticking Time Bomb’: Advocates Warn COVID-19 Is Spreading Rapidly Behind Bars (NPR)
- McConnell dangles aid to states — with a catch (Politico)
- Trump hopes for 2 million tests per week by end of May — the low end of experts’ estimates of what’s needed to reopen (STAT)
- The US reopening is coming, but ‘normal’ is still a ways off (AP News)
- Could the Coronavirus Change the Role That Big Government Plays? (The National Interest)
- U.S. response to virus splinters into acrimony and uncertainty (Reuters)
- Ex-Officials Call For $46 Billion For Tracing, Isolating In Next Coronavirus Package (NPR)
- Many states fall short of mandate to track virus exposure (AP News)
- Next wave of U.S. states set to reopen as coronavirus could push jobless rate to 16% (Reuters)
- 5 maps show how states differ on protecting Americans against coronavirus (USA Today)
- Reopening Has Begun. No One Is Sure What Happens Next. (The New York Times)
- Ten Weeks to Crush the Curve (New England Journal of Medicine)
- Gov. Newsom Announces Plan for Restaurants to Deliver 3 Meals Daily to Seniors at No Charge (Newsweek)
- Coronavirus shakes the conceit of ‘American exceptionalism’ (AP News)
- Seniors With COVID-19 Show Unusual Symptoms, Doctors Say (KHN)
- COVID-19—Looking Beyond Tomorrow for Health Care and Society (JAMA)
- The legacy of the pandemic: 11 ways it will change the way we live (Vox)
- Governors release new plan for reopening — and suggest few states are ready (Politico)
- Trump Didn’t See It Coming: Coronavirus Deaths Increased Tenfold This Month (NPR)
- States rushing to reopen are likely making a deadly error, coronavirus models and experts warn (The Washington Post)
- The Health 202: States are ending their coronavirus lockdowns earlier than health roadmaps recommend (The Washington Post)
- Local officials are in the dark on federal efforts to distribute medical supplies (The Hill)
- ‘A crippling blow to America’s prestige:’ The government struggles to meet the moment (Politico)
- America Weighs Health Versus Economy, As Divide Grows On When To Reopen (NPR)
- Southern governors create a Covid-19 coalition and experts fear a ‘perfect storm’ (Politico)
- The White House Has Erected a Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE (Portside)
- CDC director warns second wave of coronavirus is likely to be even more devastating (The Washington Post)
- The Coronavirus New Normal Has Only Started To Arrive (naked capitalism)
- Why some states became coronavirus hot spots — and others haven’t (Vox)
- ‘You’re On Your Own,’ Essential Workers Are Being Told (The New York Times)
- New Zealand could pull off bold goal of eliminating virus (AP News)
- A Switch To Medicaid Managed Care Worries Some Illinois Foster Families (KHN)
- The Inside Story Of How The Bay Area Got Ahead Of The COVID-19 Crisis (KHN)
- Trump wants to lift lockdowns. Other countries’ attempts show why the U.S. isn’t ready. (The Washington Post)
- We Need a New Social Contract for the Coronavirus (The New York Times)
- USDA under pressure as food safety concerns grow (The Hill)
- The months of magical thinking: As the coronavirus swept over China, some experts were in denial (STAT)
- ‘Army’ of contact tracers will be needed in coronavirus fight. Experts say that could cost billions. (NBC News)
- Coronavirus Advice From Abroad: 7 Lessons America’s Governors Should Not Ignore as They Reopen Their Economies (ProPublica)
- Poll: Majority fear coronavirus restrictions will be lifted too soon (Politico)
- Trump revs up for a state-by-state fight over coronavirus shutdowns (Politico)
- ‘Road map’ to recovery report: 20 million coronavirus tests per day needed to fully open economy (ABC News)
- Family ravaged by coronavirus begged for tests, hospital care, but was repeatedly denied (Detroit Free Press)
- Sick Wisconsin patients frustrated by hospitals’ coronavirus testing, treatment decisions (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- The Health 202: Twelve takeaways from the 1918 flu epidemic that help us think about the novel coronavirus (The Washington Post)
- With Broad, Random Tests for Antibodies, Germany Seeks path Out of Lockdown (The New York Times)
- The Coronavirus in America: The Year Ahead (The New York Times)
- Big Brother Wants To Track Your Location And Health Data. And That’s Not All Bad. (KHN)
- COVID-19—Looking Beyond Tomorrow for Health Care and Society (JAMA)
- No Longer Invisible: The Critical Role Of Local Health Departments In Responding To COVID-19 (Health Affairs)
- As Trump lays out reopening plan, governors fear a second coronavirus disaster (Boston Globe)
- Stephen Miller is Exploting the Coronavirus Crisis For His Immigration Crackdown (Vanity Fair)
- The coronavirus pandemic could transform our health care system — for the better (STAT)
- Doctors Offices Are Small Businesses Too. And They’re Struggling to Stay Afloat During the Pandemic (KQED)
- Frontline volunteers caught up in red tape, wooed to private hospitals instead (Politico)
- California to give cash payments to immigrants hurt by virus (AP News)
- The virus-fighting agency Trump gutted [it’s not the WHO] (Politico)
- What’s It Going To Take To End The Shutdown? 5 Keys To Containing Coronavirus (NPR)
- Testing Falls Woefully Short as Trump Seeks an End to Stay-at-Home Orders (The New York Times)
- Preparations for the Next Pandemic Must Improve Resources for Those At Greater Risk (Center for American Progress)
- Republicans wrapped the safety net in red tape. Now we’re all suffering. (The Washington Post)
- Chaotic search for coronavirus treatments undermines efforts, experts say (The Washington Post)
- Coronavirus Tests Are Being Fast-Tracked by the FDA, but It’s Unclear How Accurate They Are. (ProPublica)
- Coronavirus testing hits dramatic slowdown in U.S. (Politico)
- Protecting Decarcerated Populations In The Era of COVID-19: Priorities For Emergency Discharge Planning (Health Affairs)
- 5 burning questions about tech efforts to track Covid-19 cases (STAT)
- Trump’s new health care legacy: Big expansion of federal role (Politico)
- California governor provides complex outline for reopening (AP News)
- How did the US come up so short on PPE? (ABC News)
- 10 Reasons to Doubt the Covid-19 Data (Bloomberg)
- Lesson From Singapore: Why We May Need to Think Bigger (The New York Times)
- The Huge Cost of Waiting to Contain the Pandemic (The New York Times)
- New York, California and other states plan for reopening as coronavirus crisis eases (Reuters)
- Analysis: The Real Tragedy Of Not Having Enough COVID-19 Tests (KHN)
- A Complete List of Trump’s Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus (The New York Times)
- A plan to defeat coronavirus finally emerges, but it’s not from the White House (The Washington Post)
- A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump’s Promises Largely Unfulfilled (NPR)
- How Do We Exit The Shutdown? Hire An Army Of Public Health Workers (KHN)
- I’ve read the plans to reopen the economy. They’re scary. (Vox)
- Why Coronavirus Cases Have Spiked in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan (The New York Times)
- Coronavirus: How long will our lives be disrupted? (just care)
- 7 Answers to Questions About the Malaria Drug Trump Keeps Pushing (The New York Times)
- A second, hidden pandemic will follow covid-19. We need to plan for it. (The Washington Post)
- Eight Needed Steps in the Fight Against COVID-19 (Boston Review)
- Experts: COVID-19 pandemic unlikely to ebb as weather warms (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy)
- What’s Missing In The Coronavirus Response (Kaiser Health News)
- Why New York has 12 times as many coronavirus deaths as California (Vox)
- The Four Possible Timelines for Life Returning to Normal (The Atlantic)
- Trump Broke the Agencies That Were Supposed To Stop the Covid-19 Epidemic (Politico)
- How Europe failed the coronavirus test (Politico)
- New Research Links Air Pollution to Higher Coronavirus Death Rates (The New York Times)
- How Delays and Unheeded Warnings Hindered New York’s Virus Fight (The New York Times)
- One Thing We Can Do to Protect Frontline Workers (Politico)
- Lockdown Can’t Last Forever. Here’s How to Lift It (The New York Times)
- Rapid Sentinel Surveillance for COVID-19 — Santa Clara County, California, March 2020 (CDC)
- Coronavirus clampdown: The virus casts a shroud over American civic life (Politico)
- U.S. Hospitals Surveyed Plea For More Federal Coordination Of Testing And Supplies (National Public Radio)
- HHS watchdog finds severe hospital shortages in combating covid-19 (The Washington Post)
- Most In-Home Caregivers Receive Low Pay and No Protective Gear (KQED)
- The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged (The Washington Post)
- US ‘wasted’ months before preparing for coronavirus pandemic (AP News)
- Long-Standing Racial And Income Disparities Seen Creeping Into COVID-19 Care (Kaiser Health News)
- As Coronavirus Deepens Inequality, Inequality Worsens Its Spread (The New York Times)
- Avoiding Coronavirus May Be a Luxury Some Workers Can’t Afford (The New York Times)
- How the Pandemic Will End (The Atlantic)
- A German Exception? Why the Country’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low (The New York Times)
- In the American South, a Perfect Storm Is Gathering (The New York Times)
- CMS Guidance/Waivers to Nursing Facilities During COVID-19 Outbreak (Justice in Aging)
- Coronavirus: What’s in the $2 trillion stimulus for older adults? (Just Care)
- Time to Deliver Justice to Delivery Workers (The New York Review of Books)
- Coronavirus lockdowns must last six weeks to bring pandemic under control: researchers (South China Morning Post)
- As coronavirus cases surge in Florida, fears mount that action came too late (The Washington Post)
- Addressing needs of the homeless helps protect health, safety of everyone (Modern Healthcare)
- Union demands protection for nursing home staff amid coronavirus pandemic (ABC)
- Intellectual Disability Service Providers Want to Protect Clients. The State Isn’t Telling Them How. (ProPublica)
- Social distancing works. The earlier the better, California and Washington data show. (The Washington Post)
- Aiming while blind: DeSantis ‘targets’ coronavirus with insufficient data (Politico)
- FEMA braces for a multi-front war as hurricane season looms (Politico)
- Bill Gates: Here’s how to make up for lost time on covid-19 (The Washington Post)
- Because of age, third of US doctors prone to worse COVID-19 (Center for Infectious Disease and Research Policy)
- ‘Essential’ Or Not, These Workers Report For Duty (Kaiser Health News)
- A Conversation with Dan Reingold on Leading a Nursing Home in America’s Worst COVID-19 Hot Spot (The Gerontology Institute Blog)
- Paying for Medicaid — State Budgets and the Case for Expansion in the Time of Coronavirus (New England Journal of Medicine)
- The Health 202: Age or illness makes one-quarter of Americans more vulnerable to coronavirus complications (The Washington Post)
March’s Important Links
- Why Asia’s New Wave of Virus Cases Should Worry the World (The New York Times)
- A Major Medical Staffing Company Just Slashed Benefits for Doctors and Nurses Fighting Coronavirus (ProPublica)
- The next coronavirus crisis will be a shortage of doctors and nurses (Vox)
- Coronavirus Proposals Leave the Disability Community Behind (American Progress)
- Taxpayers Paid Millions to Design a Low-Cost Ventilator for a Pandemic. Instead, the Company Is Selling Versions of It Overseas. (ProPublica)
- Coronavirus May Add Billions to U.S. Health Care Bill (The New York Times)
- The Potential National Health Cost Impacts to Consumers, Employers and Insurers Due to the Coronavirus (Covered California)
- For Florida’s uninsured, hospitalization for COVID-19 can be a $35,000 sucker punch (McClatchy DC)
- A mortality perspective on COVID-19: Time, location, and age (Brookings)
- Why ‘choosing’ between the elderly and the economy is a phony, barbaric choice (The Washington Post)
- Hospitals, nursing homes battle over who should house elderly patients amid pandemic (LA Times)
- The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only With Harsh Steps, Experts Say (The New York Times)
- I’m a doctor at Nebraska Medicine. Here’s what I’m telling my family about COVID-19. (Nebraska Medicine)
- Two Women Fell Sick From the Coronavirus. One Survived. (The New York Times)
- The Best-Case Outcome for the Coronavirus, and the Worst (The New York Times)
- GOP-led states diverge on easing Medicaid access during COVID-19 (Modern Healthcare)
- To Defeat Coronavirus, Media Need to Look at Real-World Examples, Not Play ‘Simulitis’ (FAIR)
- We’re not going back to normal (MIT Technology Review)
- China reports zero new local coronavirus infections; Trump signs bill to ensure paid leave, other financial benefits (The Washington Post)
- Tracking the Coronavirus: How Crowded Asian Cities Tackled an Epidemic (The New York Times)
- Six chilling estimates underscore danger of coronavirus to public health and the economy (The Washington Post)
- A chilling scientific paper helped upend U.S. and U.K. coronavirus strategies (The Washington Post)
- Coronavirus closures accelerate nationwide, but wide gaps remain (The Washington Post)
- ‘A common germ pool’: The frightening origins of the coronavirus (grist)
- American Hospital Capacity And Projected Need for COVID-19 Patient Care (Health Affairs)
- NIH Director: ‘We’re on an Exponential Curve’ (The Atlantic)
- Covid-19 hits doctors, nurses and EMTs, threatening health system (The Washington Post)
- What every mayor needs to know about this virus (The Washington Post)
- The corona crisis will define our era (Social Europe)
- ‘He’s an inmate’: Anguish mounts over virus-hit nursing home (Modern Healthcare)
- The Coronavirus and the Extraordinary Decisions Facing Italian Doctors (Portside)
- Donald Trump Is Using the Coronavirus Crisis to Attack Social Security (Portside)
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