. Calibrating the model to the US Covid-19 pandemic reveals an 80% reduction in death toll due to voluntary actions and the lockdown … implemented in the United States. The optimal lockdown, however, is more stringent than what was implemented in the United States … underscore the importance of testing, showing its impact on reduced deaths, lower economic costs and laxer lockdown. We use the …

collect a unique dataset of 200,000 newspaper articles about the Covid-19 pandemic from Sweden - one of the few countries that …