From APHA: How will COVID-19 reshape future of US public health? Field expected to evolve post-pandemic
Public Health in the Future
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Personal Preparedness: Reopening is Coming, Are you Ready?
From Sharecare: America is “Re-opening” But Are You Ready?
Anger as an Outcome of Disasters
From the Wash Post: Americans are living in a big ‘anger incubator.’ Experts have tips for regulating our rage.
According to psychiatrist Joshua Morganstein, the country is now dealing with “three disasters superimposed on top of one another”: the pandemic, the economic fallout and civil unrest. “Certainly, one way of responding, and a common way of responding, is anger,” said Morganstein, who chairs the American Psychiatric Association’s Committee on the Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster.
New CRS Doc on Covid-19 and Potential Impliations for International Security Environment
From the Congressional Research Service, this 41 page document: COVID-19: Potential Implications for International Security Environment—Overview of Issues and Further Reading for Congress
SSRN Coronavirus Info Hub
I think SSRN stands for Social Science Research Network. You can register bo be a member at no cost and then use their Coronavirus Hub.
New Data on U.S. Floods Reveals More Risk
From the NYTimes: New Data Reveals Hidden Flood Risk Across America
Nearly twice as many properties may be susceptible to flood damage than previously thought, according to a new effort to map the danger.
Across much of the United States, the flood risk is far greater than government estimates show, new calculations suggest, exposing millions of people to a hidden threat — and one that will only grow as climate change worsens.
That new calculation, which takes into account sea-level rise, rainfall and flooding along smaller creeks not mapped federally, estimates that 14.6 million properties are at risk from what experts call a 100-year flood, far more than the 8.7 million properties shown on federal government flood maps. A 100-year flood is one with a 1 percent chance of striking in any given year.
Pandemic Response Does Not Bode Well for a Potential Cyberattack
From the WashPost: America’s pandemic response doesn’t bode well for a potential cyberattack.
America’s botched response to the coronavirus pandemic is a warning that, unless our broken political and administrative systems are fixed, the country could experience a similar breakdown in future national crises, such as a massive cyberattack.
This stark message was contained in a little-noticed white paper recently released by the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission, titled “Cybersecurity Lessons From the Pandemic.” As the paper highlighted, the covid-19 outbreak has been a stress test for our national crisis-management system — and that system has, to a frightening extent, failed. The challenges of a cyberattack would be even greater.
GAO Report on Opportunities to Improve Federal Response and Recovery Efforts Re Covid-19
Covid-19: Opportunities to Improve Federal Response and Recovery Efforts
GAO-20-625: Published: Jun 25, 2020. The Abstract, Highlights and Full report all available on the website.[ Not sure how many pages the full report is.]
The GAO also mentioned this report on its WatchBlog and asked for comments.
Update on June 26: GAO Staffer testimony about the report.
The Diva thought that the GAO was unusually direct and blunt in its criticisms in this report.
How COVID-19 Recovery Is Changing Cities
From the Blloomberg City Lab: How the Coronavirus Recovery Is Changing Cities
As cities emerge from coronavirus lockdowns, the way people use parks, stores, restaurants, transit, streets and homes is changing in ways both subtle and dramatic.
The Diva found this article interesting and thought provoking.
Information re Covid-19
The NYDIS has an excellent collection of guidance re Covid-19.
