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Economics & 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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Epidemics and pandemics : Covid-19 and the ‘‘drop of honey effect’’ [PDF]
, 2020 Purpose: The aim of this paper is the use of the “drop of honey effect” to explain the spread of Covid-19. Approach/Methodology/Design: After Covid-19 appearance in Wuhan, in the Chinese province of Hubei, by December, 2019, it spread all over the world.
Filipe, Jose Antonio
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Pandemics, tourism and global change: a rapid assessment of COVID-19
, 2020 The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is challenging the world. With no vaccine and limited medical capacity to treat the disease, nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPI) are the main strategy to contain the pandemic.
S. Gössling, D. Scott, C. Hall
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Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do Not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu [PDF]
Journal Economic History, 2020 We study the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on mortality and economic activity across U.S. cities during the 1918 Flu Pandemic. The combination of fast and stringent NPIs reduced peak mortality by 50 percent and cumulative excess ...
Sergio Correia +2 more
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Pandemic prioritarianism [PDF]
Journal 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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Predicting COVID-19 exposure risk perception using machine learning
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Self-perceived exposure risk determines the likelihood of COVID-19 preventive measure compliance to a large extent and is among the most important predictors of mental health problems.
Nan Zou Bakkeli
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Vaccine: X, 2023 People with disabilities and chronic health conditions are at higher risk of poor outcomes to COVID-19, yet may have lower rates of vaccination due to differences in prioritization strategies, accessibility issues, vaccine hesitancy, and other factors ...
Jessica Dimka
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Changes in alcohol use during the COVID‐19 pandemic and previous pandemics: A systematic review
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2022 The objective of this study is to summarize the research on the relationships between exposure to the COVID‐19 pandemic or previous pandemics and changes in alcohol use. A systematic search of Medline and Embase was performed to identify cohort and cross‐
Ivneet Sohi +6 more
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Cell Reports Medicine, 2021 Summary: Since the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, various genetic variants have been described. The B.1.1.7 variant, which emerged in England during December 2020, is associated with increased infectivity.
Ariel Munitz +4 more
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Pandemics, transformations and tourism: be careful what you wish for
, 2020 Disease outbreaks and pandemics have long played a role in societal and economic change. However, the nature of such change is selective, meaning that it is sometimes minimal and, at other times, and change or transformation may be unexpected ...
C. Hall, D. Scott, S. Gössling
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