Category «Health Care»

Federal Workforce: Key Considerations for Agencies Returning Employees to Workplaces during Pandemics

Federal Workforce: Key Considerations for Agencies Returning Employees to Workplaces during Pandemics. GAO-20-650T: Published: Jun 25, 2020. Publicly Released: June 25, 2020. “We testified about key practices for agencies to consider as their workers re-enter the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic or telework for sustained periods during this and other emergencies. These include: Communicating continuously …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Knowledge Mismanagement – How the Virus Won

The New York Times – article and infographics – “Invisible outbreaks sprang up everywhere. The United States ignored the warning signs. We analyzed travel patterns, hidden infections and genetic data to show how the epidemic spun out of control…How the First Outbreaks Spread – Top federal health experts concluded by late February that the virus …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation

Coronavirus Tests the Limits of America’s Public Libraries

BloombergCityLab: “In April, a Johns Hopkins University report for governors on reopening drew such fierce backlash from librarians that the authors eventually revised their guidance. The report had initially deemed libraries a low-risk environment, meaning contact with other people is brief, “fairly distant” and with a few people. But “the study tainted the view of …

Subjects: Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

A lawsuit is threatening the Internet Archive but it’s not as dire as you may have heard

Vox: “The Internet Archive (also known as IA or Archive.org), home to the giant vault of internet and public domain history known as the Wayback Machine, is currently facing a crisis — one largely defined by misinformation. A group of publishing companies filed a scathing copyright lawsuit earlier this month over the IA’s controversial attempt …

Subjects: Copyright, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Initial COVID-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported

Penn State News – UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – “Many epidemiologists believe that the initial COVID-19 infection rate was undercounted due to testing issues, asymptomatic and alternatively symptomatic individuals, and a failure to identify early cases. Now, a new study from Penn State estimates that the number of early COVID-19 cases in the U.S. may have …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Medicine

Get A Comfortable Chair: Permanent Work From Home Is Coming

NPR – “Indefinite. Or even permanent. These are words companies are using about their employees working from home. It’s three months into a huge, unplanned social experiment that suddenly transported the white-collar workplace from cubicles and offices to kitchens and spare bedrooms. And many employers now say the benefits of remote work outweigh the drawbacks. …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Health Care

What U.S. States Require Masks In Public?

Masks4All: “There aren’t any resources on the internet that display which U.S. States have mandatory mask laws and because masks are one of the most effective ways to stop COVID-19 spread, we decided to build this! Mandatory mask laws can mean many different things, sometimes it’s only on public transport, sometimes only in essential businesses, …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Coronavirus Researchers Are Dismantling Science’s Ivory Tower One Study at a Time

Wired – “…We decided to formally launch our effort with a weekend hackathon. Other groups had organized similar events to develop diagnostic tests and help with the shortage of medical equipment, so why not do the same for research? From the beginning, we knew we’d have to shake up the usual way of doing things. …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Medicine

The Pandemic Pushed Clerkship Hiring to Zoom⁠ and Law Students Liked It

Law.com – “Remote clerkship interviewing went so well last week that some law school career services officials hope it remains an option even after COVID-19 subsides…”

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

Meet the Woman Behind the World’s Most Famous Coronavirus Tracker

US News: Her dashboard lets people track the spread in near real-time. She had no idea it would get this big. “The woman behind what may be the world’s most famous coronavirus tracker isn’t a medical professional – she’s a civil engineer. Since launching in late January, Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 dashboard – a black …

Subjects: Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management

Telework Still Reigns As NYC Firms Cleared To Reopen Offices

Law360 – “New York City kicked off the second phase of its reopening plan Monday, freeing many companies to bring employees back into the office, but some law firms say ongoing coronavirus concerns are holding them back. “We’re in no rush to reopen in New York,” said Richard Hans, the head of DLA Piper‘s Manhattan …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing, Transportation

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