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Mar 24, 2022
Restoring Equity in Our City School Communities
Throughout the pandemic, Black, Latinx, and immigrant families have faced the most significant impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, disproportionately…
Mar 23, 2022
Delaware Poised to Join New Jersey With Statewide Paid Family & Medical Leave Policy in 200 Words
Delaware may soon become the 10th state in the country to enact a statewide policy on paid family and medical leave. Although state policies…
Mar 08, 2022
Meeting Families Where They Are: Child Care Navigation Supports Through Primary Care
There is an enormous amount of evidence demonstrating how quality child care environments can have long-term benefits for children, including…
Feb 25, 2022
Educators and Caregivers Need Better Tools to Support Youth with Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are severe neurodevelopmental disorders with potentially deadly medical consequences. They can begin in childhood and occur in youth…
Feb 22, 2022
The Relationship Between State COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage and Adult Hospital Census in 200 Words
With COVID-19 case incidence rapidly declining across much of the U.S., we have an opportunity to catch our breath and evaluate the public health…
Feb 17, 2022
COVID-19 Outlook: Hastened Recovery Continues, Although Some Risk Remains
Following a break from modeling last week, our COVID-Lab team updated our case incidence and hospitalization forecasts today for counties across the…
Feb 16, 2022
How Effective are Mask Mandates at Stopping the Spread of COVID-19?
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic when people everywhere are working hard to summon the energy for another chapter, many questions…
Feb 03, 2022
COVID-19 Outlook: As Recovery Continues, Schools Plan for Next Steps
A review of our COVID-Lab forecasting model this week reveals COVID-19 transmission and hospitalizations are declining across most of the U.S., and…
Jan 27, 2022
COVID-19 Outlook: Recovery Continues, But Some Regions Lag Behind
Our COVID-Lab modeling team is releasing new models this week, which debut statewide four-week forecasts for adult hospital admissions and census. In…
Jan 21, 2022
COVID-19 Outlook: Recovery from the Omicron Wave Has Started but Will Vary by Region
Data from our COVID-Lab forecasting model this week brings very welcome news: national COVID-19 case incidence should continue declining over the…
Jan 13, 2022
COVID-19 Outlook: Holiday Peaks Begin to Subside
With data once again reliable enough to input into our models, we’re back this week with COVID-Lab projections to help communities interpret a…
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