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COVID-19 Impact: 43% of Patients Apprehensive about Going Back to See a Healthcare Provider In Person Until at least the Fall, With Anxiety Lasting Into 2021 (Business Wire Health News) Published on: July 28, 2020 | Category: Global Response

DocASAP survey reveals how healthcare consumers are adapting to the new normal, unveiling new data on telehealth adoption and preference for digital capabilities.
The survey, conducted by OnePoll and commissioned by DocASAP, provides an inside look at healthcare consumers’ concerns and experiences during the pandemic, revealing key drivers of telehealth adoption, the growing demand for digital, self-service capabilities and the long-term preference for virtual care post-COVID-19.
Almost half of survey respondents (40%) have scheduled a telehealth appointment.
While routine check-ups were the top reason for scheduling a telehealth appointment across the board (56%), more than a quarter of telehealth visits (26%) were due to mental health concerns, exceeding COVID-19 (24%).

U.S military personnel in St. John’s accused of not isolating, as confusion swirls around exemption rules (CBC) Published on: July 28, 2020 | Category: Canadian Business, Global Response

The manager of a St. John’s hotel says American military members have been leaving the hotel and telling staff they were given the OK to do so by the Canada Border Services Agency.
That runs contrary to provincial rules on visitors from outside of Atlantic Canada. Even people travelling to Newfoundland and Labrador for essential work are required to isolate when they are not working.
Health Minister John Haggie said he’d heard stories about American military members being in a downtown restaurant Monday night, and that his department is looking into it.

A third of working Canadians worry about job security during pandemic: survey (Benefits Canada) Published on: July 28, 2020 | Category: Global Response

More than half (58 per cent) of working Canadians said they feel more concerned about their financial situation due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey by the Canadian Payroll Association.
The survey, which polled more than 4,000 employed Canadians, found 54 per cent said their company is facing serious economic impacts from the pandemic.
The majority (77 per cent) said they’re working from home during the pandemic, but as workplaces reopen, one in five said these worries may prompt them to go into the office even if they’re coughing, sneezing or feeling ill.

Google to Keep Employees Home Until Summer 2021 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (WSJ) Published on: July 27, 2020 | Category: Global Response

Google will keep its employees home until at least next July, making the search-engine giant the first major U.S. corporation to formalize such an extended timetable in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
In New York, fewer than one-tenth of Manhattan office workers are back to the workplace, a full month after the city gave businesses the green light to reoccupy buildings vacated in March.
Mr. Pichai was swayed in part by sympathy for employees with families to plan for uncertain school years that may involve at-home instruction, depending on geography.
It also frees staff to sign full-year leases elsewhere if they choose to move.

Target talks Christmas in July with holiday shopping announcement (Market Watch) Published on: July 27, 2020 | Category: Economic Impact

Like Walmart Inc., Target says stores will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. And Target will be making 20,000 more items, including groceries, available through its pickup and order delivery services.
Coresight Research data shows that 48% of shoppers expect to spend less this holiday season. And 28% say they’re going to start their shopping earlier than usual.
Wedbush Managing Director Michael Pachter has already forecast a back-to-school dud, with many school districts still working out the details about how – or if – students will return to classrooms for the new semester. With much still up in the air, parents have held off on buying supplies and other school gear.

How baseball’s coronavirus reckoning affects everything (Axios) Published on: July 27, 2020 | Category: Global Response

In less than four days, the 2020 MLB season is seriously at risk after at least 14 members of the Miami Marlins tested positive for the coronavirus, canceling games in Miami and Philadelphia and kicking off an emergency league meeting.
It’s a bad sign for baseball moving forward. But most importantly, it’s a bad sign for just about everything in our daily lives — showing that something approaching normal can’t simply be willed into existence.
The league moved forward without the sequestered “bubble” concept embraced by other sports leagues that have restarted or are on the verge of doing so, instead allowing teams to crisscross the country.

Pandemic crisis: Global economic recovery tracker (FT) Published on: July 27, 2020 | Category: Economic Impact, Global Response

Alternative indicators give an early picture of whether the global economy is returning to pre-crisis levels.
The FT will be tracking the most relevant alternative indicators to provide a first snapshot of changes in activity as they happen across key sectors and countries.
Job postings data from Indeed.com suggest that a labour market recovery has barely started.
Retail footfall, which tracks the number of visits to shops, tells a different story. Consumers have been slower to return even as businesses have opened their doors.

Despite Ontario delay, more provinces considering signing on with federal COVID Alert app (The Logic) Published on: July 27, 2020 | Category: Canadian Business, Global Response

The federal government’s in-house digital development shop is working to make the app compatible with health systems around the country, The Logic has learned, and several provinces have held discussions about signing on.
While COVID Alert will be available for download anywhere in the country, it can only notify users that they may have been exposed to the virus if provincial and local health authorities participate, according to a federal source with knowledge of the project.
Once downloaded, the app uses Bluetooth to exchange anonymous, encrypted keys with nearby devices also running the app; those keys are then uploaded to a server. Users will be alerted if in the previous 14 days they’ve been in close proximity to someone found to have COVID-19.

How to Stay Grounded in Chaos (Ed Batista) Published on: July 27, 2020 | Category: Leadership

Managing emotions means regulating emotions. It absolutely does not mean suppressing emotions.
A more common term that we use, in my field as an executive coach, is mental models. Mental models are the set of assumptions that we make about the world around us to help us make sense of the world and navigate it more effectively.
Under stressful conditions, like those that we’re living in on a day to day basis in the COVID-19 era, we often experience what’s known as a threat response or a fight, flight, or freeze response.

Where coronavirus stimulus talks stand (Axios) Published on: July 26, 2020 | Category: Economic Impact, Global Response

The consensus within the White House over the weekend is that they should turn their attention toward passing a smaller, bifurcated stimulus bill, focused on their main priorities.
“I think [President Trump] made a pragmatic decision to say let’s focus on unemployment insurance, schools and liability protection as the most important aspect of the larger package and deal with anything else later,” said Chief of staff Mark Meadow.

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