Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well-being, policymakers during the Covid-19 pandemic have sought the guidance of epidemiologists and economists. Unfortunately, while both groups of scientists use many of the same basic...

As COVID-19 ravaged the US in the first quarter of 2020, the US lacked a uniform mandatory policy for containing its spread. Governors facing enormous opposing pressures from businesses and medical professionals adopted various policies, especially lockdowns. The authors statistically analyze...

Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected COVID-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date...

An emergency, especially an epidemic or a pandemic, can be challenging for individuals and communities. Sudden and unpredictable situations, growing fears of health hazards, and psychological impact of deteriorating physical conditions and increasing number of deaths, can affect their...

This article assesses the likely impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and birth rates in 2020, in Brazil. Data on the historical series of births and deaths, available on the Transparency of the Civil Registry, as of 2015 are presented. Population annual totals, used for the country,...

Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been conditioned by a perceived tradeoff between saving lives and the economic costs of contact-reduction measures. We develop a model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission where populations endogenously reduce contacts in response to the risk of death. We estimate...

Objectives: To investigate whether social trust is associated with more stress symptoms among middle-aged and older adults in six East and Southeast Asia regions during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: This multi-region study used cross-sectional survey data collected in May 2020. Participants...

How best to utilize volunteers during medical emergencies is an essential part of hospital compliance planning. Onboarding recruited and spontaneous volunteers during crisis situations require careful consideration of multiple legal issues. Volunteer planning becomes more complex if volunteers...

Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected COVID-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date...

A pandemic is kind of a once in a life time low probability situation. But currently we are in this once in a life time low probability situation which is spreading rapidly. This report will talk about the effect on the India after the end of the coronavirus lockdown This paper will identify the...