落后的信息技术让疫情雪上加霜

• 作者: Mitch Leslie
• 来源期刊: 工程（英文）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（4）
• 所属期刊栏目: News & Highlights
• 页码范围: 415-417,中插3-中插5
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

When the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic exploded in the United States in March 2020, the US Congress passed a bill to provide extra unemployment benefits to the record numbers of people who had lost their jobs. The task of disbursing the money fell to the individual states, but in more than 20 of them, aged computer systems struggled to handle the surge in claims, delaying payments to many financially strapped residents by weeks and even months [1,2].