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US Land Borders under Conditions of COVID-19 Pandemic

2021· article· en· W4206235175 on OpenAlex
Potekhin Oleksandr, Mykola Fesenko

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Bibliographic record

VenueFOREIGN AFFAIRS · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCross-Border Cooperation and Integration
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)VirologyPandemicBetacoronavirusGeographyMedicineOutbreakInternal medicineInfectious disease (medical specialty)

Abstract

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The analysis of the functioning of the US land border in a pandemic showed that despite the changing health situation in Canada and Mexico, the US did not adapt the restrictions on land borders, which led to a number of negative socio-economic consequences for all countries. The lack of transparency on the part of US federal officials indicates a lack of a clear plan of action to address this pressing issue. The United States continues a strict set of restrictions that prohibit the opening of borders. The closure of the border at the state level has harmed companies that rely on tourists to generate income, as well as socio-economic losses for border communities. It is stated that in the USA there is no clear plan for the decision of problems of frontier in the conditions of pandemic COVID-19. In general, the federal plan to restore the US border will depend on positive health conditions, such as a low number of active cases and a high level of vaccination. Although the emergence of new highly contagious strains makes it unlikely that the border will return to normal state before the pandemic in the near future. In this context, maintaining existing restrictions without a public plan to ease them has a political cost. Taking into consideration election campaigns in Mexico and Canada in 2021 leaders' mistakes in addressing the economic and social losses caused by the pandemic policy at the border are a political burden. Therefore, risk management is a smart strategy for both politicians and border security. As U.S. officials continue to engage in the country's border policy in emergencies, transparent consideration of the various economic, social, and medical situations in Canada and Mexico should become a top socioeconomic priority

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.841
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.394
Teacher spread0.349 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it