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Government Executive email 6 Lessons From 2020 Federal Leaders Should Apply in the Months to Come As the embers of the dumpster fire that was 2020 burn away, important lessons provide light for the way forward in 2021. Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas I haven’t talked with anyone pining for the good old days of 2020. But as we collectively stagger into 2021, it’s worth remembering six morals from the outgoing year that we’ll want ...

Little could anyone have imagined when 2020 began how it would end: in the throes of a pandemic that has devastated millions of lives and upended the health care system, politics, government, the economy, schools, workplaces and simply how we navigate a suddenly and utterly altered world.

Government Executive email We may be entering a Golden Age of data sharing. Senior Fellow, IBM Center for the Business of Government There were quiet celebrations a year ago as the long-awaited Federal Data Strategy and a 2020 action plan came to fruition. It involved hundreds of dedicated people across the government and the action plan covered 20 specific elements. But the federal data strategy is just a foundation for a potentially broader vision. A new report on the critical need fo...

As of this weekend, two COVID-19 vaccines have officially received emergency authorization from the United States Food and Drug Administration. Shortly after the Moderna vaccine was approved on Friday, experts with the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center announced plans to track the vaccine’s rollout nationwide. Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, associate professor and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and Beth Blauer, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Centers for ...

Health Experts Begin Tracking Covid-19 Vaccine Doses A Crown Pointe Care Center resident receives a Covid-19 vaccine on Friday in Columbus, Ohio.Jay LaPrete/Associated Press Public health experts at Johns Hopkins University are tracking the number of Covid-19 vaccines administered by each state as that information becomes public. The university, which has been tracking cases, deaths and other data since the pandemic began, unveiled an online vaccine tracker Friday, showing the number of doses t...

Why It’s Time to Get Serious About Intergovernmental Data Sharing The continuing problems with COVID-19 data illustrate why we need to do a better job. Initiatives by some states and local governments are showing how to make that happen and derive greater value. John M. Kamensky, IBM Center for the Business of Government   |   December 16, 2020   |  Opinion New York Times op-ed, performance-data pioneer Beth Blauer and epidemiologist Jenn...

>> Lauren Leatherby, John Keefe, Lucy Tompkins, Charlie Smart and Matthew Conlen, The New York Times Published: 10 Dec 2020 01:52 PM BdST Updated: 10 Dec 2020 01:52 PM BdST More than a third of Americans live in areas where hospitals are running critically short of intensive care beds, federal data show, revealing a newly detailed picture of the nation’s hospital crisis during the deadliest week of the Covid-19 epidemic. The New York Times In El Paso, Texas, hospitals reported that just 13 ...

UPDATED Coronavirus: US Records 3,000+ Daily Deaths for 1st Time Posted by Scott Lucas | Dec 11, 2020 | Registered nurse Shelly Girardin checks data as Dr. Shane Wilson examines a patient with Coronavirus (Jeff Roberson/AP) UPDATE, DEC 11: Confirmed cases are 15,616,381, an increase of 224,681. Hospitalizations are a record 107,258, with 21,023 patients in intensive care. The Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee meeting has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for distri...