The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. Three … key properties escalate the COVID-19 pandemic into a syndemic. To address this triple crisis, we discuss the importance of … navigate long-awaited health policy transformation in areas that help us better prepare for the next pandemic. …

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is bringing about once-in-a-century changes to human society. This … article summarizes key characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic that should be incorporated in economics and health policy … major players in the health sector in preparation for the next pandemic. …

the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. As public officials in Washington and across the United States seek to increase the …

Do non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) aimed at reducing mortality during a pandemic necessarily have adverse … economic effects? We use variation in the timing and intensity of NPIs across U.S. cities during the 1918 Flu Pandemic to … examine their economic impact. While the pandemic itself was associated with economic disruptions in the short run, we find …

In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there have been substantial variations in policy … fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, we collect information from the résumés of government and Party officials in 294 Chinese cities … rapidly than those lacked such backgrounds. Our findings highlight the importance of professionalism in combating the pandemic. …

once elected, especially in times of crisis. Using the pandemic shock in the form of the COVID-19 crises, our paper answers … the question of how populist governments handle the pandemic. We answer this question by introducing a theoretical … framework according to which populist governments (1) enact less far-reaching policy measures to counter the pandemic and (2 …