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Promising Strategies for Creating Critical Care Capacity in U.S. Hospitals
Hospitals can prepare for a surge of patients critically ill with COVID-19, but it will require hospital leaders, practitioners, and regional officials to adopt drastic measures that challenge the standard way of providing care. A new RAND tool can help them estimate current capacity and explore ways to increase it.
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Quantum Computers Will Break the Internet, but Only If We Let Them
Quantum computers are expected to be powerful enough to break the current cryptography that protects all digital communications. But this scenario is preventable if policymakers take actions now to minimize the harm that quantum computers may cause.
Work-Family Conflicts
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Parenting Through the Pandemic: Who's Working, Who's Caring for the Kids, and What Policies Might Help
To help inform policy decisions that could help working parents affected by COVID-19, we examined the U.S. Department of Labor's Current Population Survey and recent coronavirus relief acts. Our review shows us what aid working parents might expect and what kinds of aid policymakers might consider going forward.
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Millions Need Unemployment Benefits. Unfortunately, the Delivery System Is Broken
More than 10 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance in March as businesses closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Washington's stimulus package enacted welcome measures to tide people over, but these temporary fixes don't address some serious structural problems.
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Security Risks of China's Investments in Israel
Chinese investments in Israeli high-tech companies and major infrastructure projects present distinct concerns for Israel and the United States. They could lead to leaks of sensitive technology and cyberespionage. And these risks could affect the U.S.-Israel relationship.

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COVID-19 Pandemic: The Latest from RAND
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting nearly every facet of daily life and claiming lives across the globe. As leaders grapple with how to respond, RAND experts seek to address and inform policy options and examine how different countries and communities are managing the crisis.
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How to Contain the Disinformation Virus
Like COVID-19, disinformation spreads only if we help it. While we have all been asked to stay at home as responsible citizens to contain the virus, we should also feel responsible for making it harder for disinformation to spread.
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New START Is Not NAFTA
The 2010 New START Treaty with Russia reduces long-range nuclear arms. President Trump may seek a different deal, however, as he did in renegotiating the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. But this succeeded because America had predominant leverage and Canada and Mexico are friends. Neither holds true with Russia.
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Defense Budget Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a dramatic toll on the U.S. economy. This could have significant medium-term implications for the U.S. defense budget. The U.S. Department of Defense will need to find efficiencies that are of at least the same magnitude as the recent sequestration.

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RAND Corporation Provides Objective Research Services and Public Policy Analysis

Promising Strategies for Creating Critical Care Capacity in U.S. Hospitals

Quantum Computers Will Break the Internet, but Only If We Let Them

Parenting Through the Pandemic: Who's Working, Who's Caring for the Kids, and What Policies Might Help

Millions Need Unemployment Benefits. Unfortunately, the Delivery System Is Broken

Security Risks of China's Investments in Israel

COVID-19 Pandemic: The Latest from RAND

How to Contain the Disinformation Virus

New START Is Not NAFTA

Defense Budget Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic

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How Fentanyl and Other Synthetics Are Driving the Opioids Surge

The Economic Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic

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