Trusted Sources: How Some US Employers Used Government Information During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Claudia Parvanta1, Cynthia Ball, Ann Marie Dale

  • 1From the Department of Health Policy and Systems Management, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (C.P.); Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX (C.B.); Institute for Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (A.M.D.); Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Ferguson College of Agriculture, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (K.M.); Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (T.B.H.); Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health-Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (G.S.); Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (M.S.T.); Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (T.D.); College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (J.Z.); and Department of Public Health Sciences, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL (A.J.C.M.).

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