We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST … the costs of complying with COVID-19 restrictions, but only so long as excess mortality does not exceed the average by …

anxiety and depression are explained by mortality and stringency of lockdown measures using ad event study that draws on … lockdown took effect. However, such effects are wiped out when a country exhibits high mortality ('pandemic category 5'). Hence …, we conclude that in an environment of high mortality, lockdowns no longer give rise to a reduction in well …

remove concurrent policy bias from the effect of each policy of interest, and we establish that policies curb the epidemic by …

This study documents how the demographics of new infections and mortality changed over time across US counties. We find … that counties with a larger population share aged above 60 were hit harder initially in terms of both cases and mortality …