Timelines & Declarations
Action: Play the Social Distance Game to better understand why social distance is so important and what decision making might look like within the COVID-19 context. Contact your governor by phone or using Resistbot to share your thoughts and ask them to follow through with science-based, public-safety oriented policies that are inclusive and protect those most at risk.
Educate: Comb through our compiled list of links to COVID-19 timelines from all 50 states, plus a few internationally. Take a closer look at our infographics and the Federal Declarations Flowchart from the week of April 20, 2020.
Source Material: Click through the links to the source material we used to research this week – take a deep dive into what was most interesting to you!
- Overview of Local, State, and Federal Response to a Disaster from FEMA
- Emergency Declarations and Tribes by Gregory Sunshine, JD & Aila Hoss, JD
- Coronavirus: 48 US states declare states of emergency from Business Insider
- A Public Health Lesson from Hurricane Harvey: Invest in Prevention from Harvard Business Review
- Conceptualizing and Defining Public Health Emergency Preparedness by Christopher Nelson, PhD, Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH, Jeffrey Wasserman, PhD, and Sarah Zakowski, BA
- Native American tribe takes trailblazing steps to fight Covid-19 outbreak from The Guardian
- Regulations and Laws That May Apply During a Pandemic from CDC
- FAQs: Current Process for Tribal Governments to Request a Presidential Declaration from FEMA
- LGBTQ History Month: The early days of America’s AIDS crisis from NBC News
- The sad history of the U.S government fighting pandemics from BigThink
