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The COVID-19 pandemic and the transformation of health policy : a syndemic perspective
Chen, Xi; Fan, Annie - 2021
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. Three … key properties escalate the COVID-19 pandemic into a syndemic. To address this triple crisis, we discuss the importance of … navigate long-awaited health policy transformation in areas that help us better prepare for the next pandemic. …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 U.S. presidential election
Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Weymouth, Stephen - 2021
What is the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 U.S. presidential election? Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 U.S. presidential election
Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Weymouth, Stephen - 2020
What is the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 U.S. presidential election? Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311095
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France and Germany exceed Italy, South Korea and Japan in temperature-adjusted Corona proliferation : a quick and dirty Sunday morning analysis
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2020
Measures to contain the Corona virus (COVID-19) may pay off in terms of slowing down proliferation. The proliferation trend in France and Germany now exceeds the one in Italy, South Korea and Japan. At the same time, the containment measures seem more intense in Italy, South Korea and Japan than...
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Key links in network interactions : assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the Covid-19 pandemic
Chen, Xi; Qiu, Yun; Shi, Wei; Yu, Pei - 2022
We consider a model of network interactions where the outcome of a unit depends on the outcomes of the connected units. We determine the key network link, i.e., the network link whose removal results in the largest reduction in the aggregate outcomes, and provide a measure that quantifies the...
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Role of professionalism in response to the COVID-19 pandemic : does a public health or medical background help?
Li, Xun; Lai, Weizheng; Wan, Qianqian; Chen, Xi - 2021
In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy … fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, we collect information from the résumés of government and Party officials in 294 Chinese cities … rapidly than those lacked such backgrounds. Our findings highlight the importance of professionalism in combating the pandemic. …
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Optimally targeting interventions in networks during a pandemic : theory and evidence from the networks of nursing homes in the United States
Pongou, Roland; Tchuente, Guy; Tondji, Jean-Baptiste - 2021
during a pandemic. Agents are connected through a weighted undirected network of contacts, and the planner's objective is to … tradeoff between the economic cost of the pandemic and the infection incidence allowed; and (ii) they suggest a correlation …-faire (more tolerance to the virus spread) pandemic policy is associated with an increased number of deaths in nursing homes and …
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Do elections accelerate the COVID-19 pandemic? : evidence from a natural experiment
Palguta, Ján; Levínský, René; Škoda, Samuel - 2021
Elections define representative democracies, but also produce spikes in physical mobility if voters need to travel to electoral rooms. In this paper, we examine whether large-scale, in-person elections propagate the spread of COVID-19. We exploit a natural experiment from the Czech Republic...
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Act early to prevent infections and save lives : causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic
Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Vollmer, Sebastian; … - 2021
This paper examines the causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Using an instrumental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619669
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Covid-19 vaccines, innovation, and intellectual property rights
Cozzi, Guido; Galli, Silvia - 2022
Should the intellectual property rights on the first Covid-19 vaccines be temporarily lifted in applying the Trade-Related Aspect of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) flexibility? Is it right to grant the first generation of Covid-19 vaccines a special treatment from an IPR perspective? On what...
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