America’s improvised strategy to fight COVID-19—public and private behavioral changes to slow transmission until vaccines could be deployed—prevented close to 800,000 deaths in the country. The ad hoc effort’s effectiveness is surprising because public health officials could not precisely target mitigation as they lacked precise information on the routes and mechanisms of the disease’s transmission.
The federal government should develop a new infrastructure for rapidly gathering public health data, argue Andrew Atkeson and Stephen Kissler in their contribution to the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.
The clean energy revolution. Across the United States, the push to rapidly deploy large renewable energy infrastructure projects is colliding with local concerns. Xavier de Souza Briggs, Linnea Jackson, and Katerina Oskarsson discuss how to navigate the net-zero transition fairly and successfully in communities nationwide.
An effective governance regime for AI. In testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Nicol Turner Lee outlines the objectives and impact of President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence (AI).
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