that are not tested under current guidelines), is not well estimated in the literature because tests for the coronavirus …

India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of … least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In this paper, we use age-specific fatality rates from 14 comparison … countries, coupled with India's distribution of covid-19 cases to “predict" what India's CFR would be with those age …

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …

mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither …

response and mortality outcomes should be better than in 1918-20. We ask whether mortality from historical pandemics has any … predictive content for mortality in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. We find a strong persistence in public health performance in … the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Places that performed poorly in terms of mortality in 1918 were more likely to …

What would a hypothetical one million US deaths in the Covid-19 epidemic mean for mortality of individuals at the … population level? To put estimates of Covid-19 mortality into perspective, we estimate age-specific mortality for an epidemic … can be valued at six to 10 trillion dollars. The age-patterns of Covid-19 mortality observed in other countries are …