The surge in COVID-19 cases among children, driven by the Delta variant, has placed significant pressure on school boards, teachers, staff, and parents to balance the desire to “return to normal” with considerations for how to keep students as safe as possible.
Guests Jennifer Harper, Sarah Hanck, and Divya Vohra discuss recent research from Mathematica and the Rockefeller Foundation on the potential impact of routine screening for COVID-19 in schools.
In honor of International Women’s Day, Mathematica’s Candace Miller, Divya Vohra, Cindy Hu, and Sarah Hughes reflect on leadership, the toll that COVID-19 has taken on women, how they pivoted to help respond to the pandemic, and what the future of leadership by women looks like to them.
In March, when COVID-19 rapidly spread across the United States, countries that had already experienced mass exposure were leaning on contact-tracing efforts to acknowledge, track, and prevent further spread of the virus.