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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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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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SSRN 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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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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The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics
Science Advances, 2022 The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over the past century. Prominent policymakers have promoted plans that argue the best ways to address future pandemic catastrophes should entail, “detecting and ...
Aaron S. Bernstein +19 more
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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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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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Making it normal for new enrollments: Effect of institutional and pandemic influence on selecting an engineering institution under the COVID-19 pandemic situation [PDF]
, 2021 The COVID19 pandemic has forced Indian engineering institutions (EIs) to bring their previous half shut shades completely down. Fetching new admissions to EI campuses during the pandemic has become a now or never situation for EIs. During crisis situations, institutions have struggled to return to the normal track.
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Maintaining User Engagement in an Infectious Disease Surveillance-Related Citizen Science Project
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2021 Over the past fifteen years, infectious disease surveillance has evolved to include online citizen science projects that implement active digital data collection. Flu Near You (FNY) is an online participatory surveillance system in the United States that
Shannon Smith +7 more
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Longer-Run Economic Consequences of Pandemics
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020 What are the medium- to long-term effects of pandemics? Do they differ from other economic disasters? We study major pandemics using rates of return on assets stretching back to the fourteenth century. Significant macroeconomic after-effects of pandemics
Ò. Jordà +2 more
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