COVID-19: Pandemics Past and Present

The week before Spring Break in March of 2020 I, along with thousands of other educators across the country, found out via email that I had one week to adapt four in-person college writing courses into remote classes for the remainder of the semester. In the midst of the first wave of lockdowns that year, as COVID-19 was still so poorly understood, many of us (myself included) assumed that this would be only a brief interruption in our usual teaching routines. We were very much mistaken. Keep reading for some tips on teaching online that you can use in your own classroom (virtual or otherwise).

At HeinOnline, we’re always looking for ways to make relevant, timely information easy to find for our subscribers. That’s why we have just unveiled a new Vaccination subcollection in our COVID-19: Pandemics Past and Present database, which is included in ALL of our Core packages.

Vaccination requirements aren’t new in the United States. Many infectious diseases have resulted in mandatory inoculations at the federal and state level—well before today’s health and safety measures were put into place. With the help of HeinOnline, let’s take a look at the relationship between government and vaccination through the years in the United States.

In August 2020, HeinOnline released COVID-19 in America: Response, Issues, and Law free to all Core subscription packages, empowering users with factual information about the COVID-19 pandemic and its global effects. This database compiled hundreds of publications from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) and Government Accountability Office (GAO), analyzing the various ways COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life, from testing issues in the medical field to unemployment and economic impact.

The 2020 presidential election has proven to be the most debated, divisive, and important election of our time. No matter which side you are leaning towards, there are key topics that each voter should be educated on when casting their vote, either by mail or in-person in the next 2 weeks. Let’s take a look at where each candidate stands on 5 key issues, and how to research these topics using HeinOnline.

Back in March, we wrote a blog on the new and mysterious COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2. The blog was published just two days after the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and at the time of the post, only 135,000 people had been infected.