THREAD | Meryl Chertoff, executive director of the Georgetown Project on State and Local Government Policy and Law, says governors and mayors are our best hope to avert disaster with the #coronavirus #COVID19 pandemic. /1
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5) Work with public and private partners to alleviate short-term financial burdens of needed measures -- such as temporarily ending elective surgery to keep beds open for critical cases. /5
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6) Waive regulatory provisions that slow up delivery of urgently needed supplies. Demand federal regulatory agencies do the same. 7) Sign emergency paid sick leave measures that include both those on payroll and those in the informal and gig economy. /6
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8) Push the federal government for transparency on the results of testing and its own planning efforts. Read Meryl Chertoff's full essay on why governors and mayors need to take the lead on the
#coronavirus#COVID19 pandemic: http://bit.ly/2x9uU3c /endShow this thread
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