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Pandemic and progressivity [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Tax and Public Finance, 2021
Based on a survey of about 2,500 US resident adults, we show that people who have experienced serious illness or job loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, or who personally know someone who has, favor a temporary progressive levy or structural progressive tax reform to a greater extent than others in the sample, controlling for income, demographic ...
Alexander Klemm, Paolo Mauro
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Variability in clinical assessment of clade IIb mpox lesions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Objectives: The ongoing global outbreak of mpox, caused by clade IIb mpox virus, poses significant challenges in accurately categorizing and assessing the diversity of lesions.
Benjamin Jones   +6 more
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Cultivating community-based participatory research (CBPR) to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic: an illustrative example of partnership and topic prioritization in the food services industry

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background As an illustrative example of COVID-19 pandemic community-based participatory research (CBPR), we describe a community-academic partnership to prioritize future research most important to people experiencing high occupational exposure to COVID-
Michael Hoerger   +15 more
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Bubonic plague: can the size of buboes be accurately and consistently measured with a digital calliper?

open access: yesTrials, 2023
Introduction Conducting clinical research on treatments for emerging infectious diseases is often complicated by methodological challenges, such as the identification of appropriate outcome measures to assess treatment response and the lack of validated ...
Josephine Bourner   +8 more
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Persistent Pandemics

open access: yesEconomics & Human Biology, 2021
We ask whether mortality from historical pandemics has any predictive content for mortality in the Covid-19 pandemic. We find strong persistence in public health performance. Places that performed worse in terms of mortality in the 1918 influenza pandemic also have higher Covid-19 mortality today.
Peter Z. Lin, Christopher M. Meissner
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Pandemic prioritarianism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Medical Ethics, 2021
Prioritarianism pertains to the generic idea that it matters more to benefit people, the worse off they are, and while prioritarianism is not uncontroversial, it is considered a generally plausible and widely shared distributive principle often applied to healthcare prioritisation.
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Is COVID-19 another case of the obesity paradox? Results from an international ecological study on behalf of the REPROGRAM Consortium Obesity study group

open access: yesArchives of Medical Science, 2021
Introduction Obesity has emerged as one of the major risk factors of severe morbidity and cause-specific mortality among severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infected individuals.
Sonu Bhaskar   +5 more
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Pandemic Policymaking [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Social Computing, 2021
This study leverages a high dimensional manifold learning design to explore the latent structure of the pandemic policymaking space only based on bill-level characteristics of pandemic-focused bills from 1973 to 2020. Results indicate the COVID-19 era of policymaking maps extremely closely onto prior periods of related policymaking.
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Slums and Pandemics

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
How do slums shape the economic and health dynamics of pandemics? A difference-in-differences analysis using millions of mobile phones in Brazil shows that residents of overcrowded slums engaged in less social distancing after the outbreak of Covid-19. We develop and calibrate a choice-theoretic equilibrium model in which individuals are heterogeneous ...
Luiz Brotherhood   +3 more
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Violence and Abuse: A Pandemic Within a Pandemic

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, as society struggled with increasing disease burden, economic hardships, and with disease morbidity and mortality, governments and institutions began implementing stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders to help stop the spread of the virus.
Whiteman, Paula J.   +5 more
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