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Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last … decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little … impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks suggests that they may prompt vaccination behavior. I use newly compiled data …
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intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free on-site clinics … listed the times and locations of the relevant vaccination clinics. Mailings to employees randomly assigned to the treatment … and time the employee planned to be vaccinated. Vaccination rates increased when these implementation intentions prompts …
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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to rationing guidelines for scarce medical resources. This paper describes the benefits of using a reserve system over a priority system in operationalizing compromises between certain ethical goals. In the last two years, more than a dozen...
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We estimate a model of damage to corporate earnings from COVID-19. An unexpected pandemic lowers current earnings due to costly mitigation and reduces growth rates. Damage depends on the expected arrival of a vaccine that reverts earnings to normal. Using this model, we infer from analysts'...
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We compare and contrast the expected duration and number of infections and deaths averted among several designs for clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine candidates, including traditional randomized clinical trials and adaptive and human challenge trials. Using epidemiological models calibrated to...
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problem faced by governments in determining the scale and structure of procurement for vaccines. We analyze alternative …
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over the past three years of vaccines and private and public behavior to mitigate disease transmission during the COVID-19 … daily deaths from COVID-19 fixed, what was the impact of vaccines on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 up through June 2023 … question, I find that vaccines saved 748,600 lives through June 2023. That is, without vaccines, cumulative mortality from …
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A booster of the COVID-19 vaccine targeting the prevailing Omicron variant did not become available in the United States until a year after the variant was first detected. This pattern of developing, testing, and distributing a variant-specific booster may become the default response to further...
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administration of COVID-19 vaccines. The program cut the typical ten-year timeline needed to develop a new vaccine down to ten months …
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