COVID-19 and Policy: Looking Backward and Looking Forward

Scholars, journalists and a pollster recently discussed voter turnout, polling uncertainties and what’s at stake in the Nov. 3 election. 

“One of the challenges of tax cuts is that people only interact with the tax system once a year, and it’s in April,” says Chris Faricy, associate professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.

“I think he has become an influence not because he’s been explicitly political, but because he has emphasized Catholic social teaching and reminded Catholics, including Catholic voters in the U.S. that Catholic social teaching is a part of the teaching of the Church,” says Margaret Susan Thompson, professor of history and political science.

The chapter, co-authored by Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Robert Rubinstein and Professor Emerita of Public Health Sandra Lane, was published in the De Gruyter Handbook of Structural Violence.

“The release of Hubbard was a gesture to Trump, nothing more, and does not imply a larger willingness on Putin’s part to make concessions or end the war,” argues Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

“We just won’t know any of that anymore,” Scott Landes, professor of sociology, says of the proposed removal of questions dealing with memory, fatigue, arthritis, difficulty walking and climbing stairs, as well as others about the use of hearing aids, canes, wheelchairs and scooters.

This brief describes racial and ethnic gaps in bystander CPR for opioid-related cardiac arrests. The authors find that Black patients were 30 percent less likely, and Hispanic patients 19 percent less likely, than White patients to receive bystander CPR. Rates rose across all groups when 911 dispatchers walked callers through CPR instructions, though that benefit was strongest for White patients.

The article, co-authored by Meghan Kelly and Timur Hammond, both faculty members in the Geography and the Environment Department, was published in Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization.

International students and workers also support the economy beyond their universities or workplaces. By living in the U.S., foreign students and workers create jobs as they buy goods and services, says Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.