Stellmach) Now is the time for social scientists, funders, global agencies, allied disciplines, and national governments to strategically build core capacities and competencies, and move epidemic social science from the margins to the mainstream. In so doing, social science will challenge the existing status quo. Infectious disease epidemics are increasingly conceived of as events that require socio-political awareness, responses, and solutions. This intensified focus can be seen, for example, in the February 2020 establishment of a COVID-19 Research Roadmap Social Science Working Group by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, various institutional, cultural, and political gaps prevent social science insights on issues such as (mis) trust, (mis/dis) information, the acceptability of laws and mandates, human behaviour and social norms, and stigma and discrimination from being mainstreamed into epidemic response. Based on data collected prior to the COVID-19 pandemic but a
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Note: This alert supersedes and replaces an earlier alert on the same topic, issued on December 22, 2020.
In mid-December 2020, Maine Governor Janet Mills, the state’s attorney general’s office, the Maine Department of Health & Human Services, and the Maine Human Rights Commission published new guidance concerning mask directives and the availability of accommodations for individuals prevented from wearing a mask or face covering due to a disability.
These publications have generated a number of questions within the employer community regarding the extent to which the governor’s face covering mandate applies in the context of private workplaces. We offer the following summary of the latest developments concerning face coverings and reasonable accommodations in Maine. While we don’t claim to have all the answers, we hope this alert will help to alleviate some confusion.
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Virginia Developments
Readers will no doubt recall that, during the week of July 27, 2020, the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry adopted an Emergency Temporary Standard concerning COVID-19 and how employers were to protect employees in the workplace from being exposed and/or contracting COVID-19. Virginia was the first state to adopt such standards. When the Emergency Temporary Standard went into effect, it was made clear that it would expire either within six months of its adoption, upon the expiration of Governor Northam’s State of Emergency Order for Virginia, which has not occurred, or when superseded by a permanent standard, whichever came first. Williams Mullen’s prior articles concerning the Emergency Temporary Standard can be found
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Dr. Ogechika Alozie, an infectious disease expert in El Paso and member of the Texas Governor s Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response, discusses the COVID-19 pandemic s impact on the border including the strain on local hospitals, concerns during the holiday season and hope in new treatments and vaccines.
After a deadly surge in COVID-19 cases, the number of new cases in El Paso is declining. But we may still see another post holiday spike after the holiday season if peopel do not wear masks, socially distance and avoid gathering with people who are not part of our household. KTEP’s Angela Kocherga recently checked in with Dr. Ogechika Alozie ,El Paso infectious disease expert and a member of the Texas Governor’s Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response. (This interview aired on KTEP 88.5 fm during our morning newscast on December 8th).