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  2. U.S. federal government response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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    The week of March 19, the Federal Housing Finance Agency ordered federally guaranteed loan providers to grant forbearance of up to a year on mortgage payments from people who lost income due to the pandemic. It encouraged the same for non-federal loans and included a pass-through provision for landlords to grant forbearance to renters who lost ...

  3. U.S. state and local government responses to the COVID-19 ...

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    Full map including municipalities. 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.

  4. Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

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    At peak, as many as 25,000 prisoners across the United States tested positive for COVID-19 in a single week. [60] By June 2021 more than 500,000 prisoners had tested positive for COVID-19; [60] and as of December 2021, about 34 of every 100 people in US prisons had been infected with COVID-19, almost 4-times the rate of the national population.

  5. World Health Organization response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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    On 20 July, with Latin America now being the epicentre of the pandemic, the WHO expressed concern at COVID-19's impact on indigenous people in the Americas. [ 115 ] On 23 July, as global cases topped 15 million, the Director-General of the WHO urged people to play their part in preventing the further spread of the pandemic, warning of no return ...

  6. Racial disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic in the United ...

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    The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and exacerbated inequalities through uneven effects across social domains. [11] Some of these impacts include disproportionate financial toll, crime, education, human rights, xenophobia and racism, disproportionate impacts by gender, and racial inequalities.

  7. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections, an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered an epidemic. [1] Due to the long time spans, the first plague pandemic (6th century – 8th ...

  8. COVID-19 pandemic in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history. [43] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [ 44 ] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans , 2.9 years for African Americans , and 1.2 years for White ...

  9. United States responses to the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    A May 2020 poll concluded that 54% of people in the U.S. felt the federal government was doing a poor job in stopping the spread of COVID-19 in the country. 57% felt the federal government was not doing enough to address the limited availability of COVID-19 testing. 58% felt the federal government was not doing enough to prevent a second wave ...