Research Symposium

BIO

Drew Thorpe is a second year Psychology major with a Minor in Business and an intended Minor in Mandarin, Chinese. She is a member of UROP, SHRM at FSU, and WIB, and intends to get a Juris Masters in Employment Law and HR Risk Management from FSU.

Chronology of COVID-19 and Healthcare

Abstract

This is a historical chronology of the way the federal government, Florida government, and medical field handled the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The implied question behind this asks how these bodies reacted to the pandemic via laws and policies. I am investigating this question because understanding how an international event like the COVID-19 Pandemic was responded to from a a human resources or lawmakers' perspective can give people insight into how things could be handled differently in the case of similar scenarios in the future (on a smaller scale or otherwise).
I have studied multiple peer reviewed articles and news articles discussing Federal policy, Floridian policy, and medical professions demands during the pandemic. I analyzed this data by summarizing each article and picking out dates when different policies were established, then creating a chronology of each date to better view events and establish some correlation and causation between each of the three portions of study.
This method established a clear chronology of policies and laws made in response to the pandemic from a federal, state, and medical perspective, and highlighted public responses to said findings. This historical study establishes what policies and laws will be effective in similar situations in the future and those on a smaller scale and will allow for governments and medical professionals to be better prepared and informed.

Keywords: COVID-19, Florida, Healthcare