Trump is at Odds with CDC – updated

Posted on July 8, 2020 by recoverydiva

Trump trashes CDC school reopening guidelines as ‘very tough’ and ‘expensive’

Update on July 9: CDC shows some spine in holding firm on guidelines. See this article in CCN.

Fire Season Could Complicate Covid-19 Response

Posted on July 7, 2020 by recoverydiva

Fire season could bring complications to states already battling Covid-19
Air pollution from wildfire smoke increases susceptibility to the coronavirus leading to worsened health conditions for both those near fires.

Redesigning the World Post Covid-19

Posted on July 6, 2020 by recoverydiva

From Politico: How to Redesign the World for Coronavirus and Beyond.

In the months since the coronavirus engulfed the world, it’s become clear that society won’t go back to normal any time soon, if ever.

Yes, states are reopening their economies, but some are seeing serious spikes and shutting back down. And even the “reopened” world looks very different. Restaurants are half-filled; many movie theaters and stadiums remain empty; vacations have turned local. Huge question marks hang over the summer’s presidential conventions and the school year this coming fall. Without a vaccine, and with the virus still spreading around the world, we can’t expect society to resume its former shape anytime soon.

Record Grants from FEMA in 2020

Posted on July 5, 2020 by recoverydiva

From FedScoop: With a pandemic and hurricane season crushing FEMA, the agency could use some bots

The Federal Emergency Management Agency‘s various grant programs have made more awards more this year than the past 30 years combined, a top official says, and now the agency is considering how robotic process automation (RPA) bots could help improve the payment process.

Thoughts for Independence Day

Posted on July 4, 2020 by recoverydiva

Why Coronavirus Is an ‘Existential Crisis’ for American Democracy. Danielle Allen has a 2,500-year view of democracies, wrote Harvard’s pandemic resilience road map and thinks American government is like a Ferrari we haven’t learned to drive. But she’s not totally pessimistic: We can take hope, she says, from New Orleans.

This is a good time to reflect on governance issues raised by the response to Covid-19

Public Health in the Future

Posted on July 3, 2020 by recoverydiva

From APHA: How will COVID-19 reshape future of US public health? Field expected to evolve post-pandemic

Personal Preparedness: Reopening is Coming, Are you Ready?

Posted on July 2, 2020 by recoverydiva

From Sharecare: America is “Re-opening” But Are You Ready?

Anger as an Outcome of Disasters

Posted on July 1, 2020 by recoverydiva

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.