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Local officials get to participate in events such as ribbon cuttings, celebrating projects they may have helped make happen. NHLI/Eliot J. Schechter via Getty Images

Local governments provide proof that polarization is not inevitable

Lauren Hall, Rochester Institute of Technology; Institute for Humane Studies

Partisan debates are less heated at the local level, providing lessons that might help calm the waters nationally.
Socioeconomic and cultural data can help governments predict and slow the spread of the next pandemic. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

How to use statistics to prepare for the next pandemic

R. Alexander Bentley, University of Tennessee

Many governments, including the US, already collect and make public population statistics that could help them prepare for the next pandemic.
President Donald Trump, right, and Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a meeting on March 3 about the coronavirus outbreak. Getty/Brendan Smialowski/AFP

If I get sick with coronavirus, can Donald Trump make me stay home?

Brian Labus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The US has public health agencies at the federal, state and local level. The spread of coronavirus is putting those agencies in the spotlight. What roles does each play and how are they coordinated?

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