COVID-19 The United States of America Policy and forecasting 1. Introduction Since human-to-human transmission of pneumonia was detected in Wuhan City in China at the end of December 2019, COVID-19, or coronavirus, has spread with astonishing speed around the world (He et al., 2020; Zhao...
Thursday, November 4, 2021 - Today, OSHA released the anticipated COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), which can be foundhttps://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-23643.pdfand is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register tomorrow. The New Vaccinati...
More than 98% of US residents now live in an area with a “high” or “substantial” risk of Covid-19 community transmission — up from only 19% a month ago. As US students go back to schools, Covid-19 cases among kids have been on the rise in the US since early July. Are you...
Such lessons learned from previous pandemics can be valuable today in government responses to the COVID-19 outbreak. Most governments have implemented mixed approaches that combine, among others, awareness campaigns in media, health notices in all shops, welfare programs for the poor, income support...
The past few months have seen many parts of the world, including Europe and North America, continue their journey toward endemic COVID-19. While the BA.5 subvariant has produced a rise in the number of cases in many places, the burden of severe disease remains low in Europe and is onl...
In Africa, refusal of COVID-19 and other vaccines is widespread for different reasons, including disbelief in the existence of the virus itself and faith in traditional remedies. In sub-Saharan countries, refusal is often made worse by opposition to vaccines by the religious establishments. This ...
A high-ranking elected official in Orange County, California, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery as part of a scheme involving a charity and the misuse of COVID-19 relief funds. October 23 Yellen says isolationism ‘made America and the world worse off’ in speech ...
"We haven't faced an enemy like we are facing today in 102 years," said Ohio Governor Mike DeWine when announcing the stay-at-home order. "We are at war." Health workers are seen at a drive-through COVID-19 testing location set up by the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virgini...
vaccines started rolling out and when case counts declined following the Delta surge. But even though a winter spike in Omicron cases was coupled with good news about severe disease, over half of respondents said they think the pandemic is getting worse," said a USA Today report on the poll...
Facebook Global Symptom Survey (in collaboration with the University of Maryland Social Data Science Center), the Kaiser Family Foundation, YouGov COVID-19 Behavioural Tracker survey (https://today.yougov.com/covid-19/) and PREMISE (https://www.premise.com/covid-19/; Supplementary Information...