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daily deaths from COVID-19 fixed, what was the impact of vaccines on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 up through June 2023 … behavioral responses to COVID-19 deaths on cumulative mortality from COVID-19 over this same time period? In answering the first … question, I find that vaccines saved 748,600 lives through June 2023. That is, without vaccines, cumulative mortality from …
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on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 …
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excess mortality data. Contrasting countries' rankings using these two data sources reveal sharp and systematic differences …. While higher GDP per capita is associated with a worse mortality ranking when using official Covid-19 mortality, there is no … such sharp association when using excess mortality data. By the end of 2021, the quartile rankings of three-fifths of the …
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Vaccination rates have a statistically significant downward effect on the Covid-19 death rate across US counties, as of … Biden-Trump vote in the 2020 election as an instrument for vaccination rates raises the magnitude of the estimate …
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Rates of COVID deaths and cases differ markedly across U.S. states, as do rates of vaccination. This study uses cross …-sectional regressions arise, including omitted variables, behavioral responses to vaccination, and reverse causation. The benefits from a … along these lines reveal sizable negative effects of vaccination on deaths and cases up to early December 2021, although …
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that, although initially, vaccines have little effect on new infections they strongly reduce the share of mortality out of … hypothesis that the ratio of current mortality to lagged infections is decreasing in the total number of vaccines per one hundred … conclusion from the statistical analysis is that, passed a certain threshold, vaccines moderate the share of mortality from a …
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-specific policies introduced by competing risks of mortality. The incentive to invest in prevention against one cause of death depends … than the direct medical reduction in mortality: it affects the incentives to fight other diseases so the overall reduction … in mortality will, in general, be larger than that predicted by the direct medical effects. We discuss evidence of these …
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systematic fashion. Using newly digitized mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900-1917, we explore the … requirement was associated with a 6 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality, while the opening of a state-run sanatorium was … associated with an almost 4 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality. However, these and other anti-TB measures can explain, at …
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The global COVID-19 vaccination campaign is the largest public health campaign in history, with over 2 billion people … fully vaccinated within the first 8 months. Nevertheless, the impact of this campaign on all-cause mortality is not well … understood. Leveraging the staggered rollout of vaccines, we find that the vaccination campaign across 141 countries averted 2 …
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We analyze the financial performance of a hypothetical portfolio of 120 mRNA vaccine candidates in the preclinical stage targeting 11 emerging infectious diseases. We calibrate the simulation parameters with input from domain experts in mRNA technology and an extensive literature review. We find...
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