We study the Covid-19 student vaccine mandate decision by higher-education institutions. The decision is influenced by an institution’s ranking, type, enrollment, competition, and political landscape. A national standard for a higher education vaccine mandate will internalize the positive...

A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...