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State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
The federal government of the United States initially responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country with various declarations of emergency, some of which led to travel and entry restrictions and the formation of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
Aug 3, 2021 · COVID-19 took a toll on the U.S. economy, impacting businesses’ revenues and individuals’ earnings. These losses also impacted state and local governments, which rely on funding generated by sales and income taxes (among others) to fund everything from roads to schools.
This article contains the following kinds of state government responses to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020: How many executive orders each state has issued. Information on stay-at-home orders. Information on travel restrictions. Legislation enacted in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Changes to legislative sessions. School closures.
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- The Design of The Public Health Preparedness System
- The State of American Federalism Pre-Covid-19
- The Gap Between Promise and Performance
- Conclusions
Like all countries, the United States continues to confront the profound challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),1 over 557,000 Americans have died and over 30 million have been sickened by this virus between February 2020 and early April 2021, but even these numbers may not count...
Public health is grounded in the most basic function of government: to promote public health, safety, and welfare (Hodge 1997a, 1997b). Disease preparedness and response is an inherently intergovernmental activity. Under our constitutional order, the federal government plays an important role in this system, in particular by supporting state and lo...
In this section, we provide a brief review of the state of American federalism prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We note that the United States has moved away from a collaborative form of federalism to a more contentious form of federalism characterized by significant state-to-state variation in policy that is largely driven by partisanship. However,...
It is an article of faith in American politics that the federal government will join with state and local governments to support them during crises. The very foundation of federal emergency management policy in general is the idea that state and local governments are best positioned to respond to emergencies. When particularly large disasters happe...
Any assessment of the United States’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic will inevitably confront the role of federalism in the national response. As we have reviewed in this article, preparedness for and response to a pandemic is a shared responsibility between national and state governments. The current state of federalism has made this response pa...
- Thomas A Birkland, Kristin Taylor, Deserai A Crow, Rob DeLeo
- 2021
The United States' response to the COVID-19 pandemic with consists of various measures by the medical community; the federal, state, and local governments; the military; and the private sector.
Jun 29, 2020 · Abstract. This research presents implications of the global pandemic for local government resiliency in the United States. The authors explore insights from local government officials and managers on the front lines of response and recovery efforts to the biological natural disaster.
