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

Mortality and economic contraction during the 1918-1920 Great Influenza Pandemic provide plausible upper bounds for … outcomes under the coronavirus (COVID-19). Data for 48 countries imply flu-related deaths in 1918-1920 of 40 million, 2 ….1 percent of world population, implying 150 million deaths when applied to current population. Regressions with annual …

corporate characteristics and stock price reactions to COVID-19 cases. We find that the pandemic-induced drop in stock prices …

world better prepared in 2020 than it was in 1918? After a century of public health and basic science research, pandemic … 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 …

This article reviews the global health and economic consequences of the 1918 influenza pandemic, with a particular … mortality, fertility, and the economy in the short and medium run. The role of nonpharmaceutical interventions in shaping those …

around 2.2%. The world average rate is far higher, at around 4%. Several observers have noted that this difference is at …-country perspective in the growth phase of the pandemic …