Seit zwei Jahren dominiert die durch das SARS-CoV-2-Virus ausgelöste Pandemie die Welt. Sie hat alle Kontinente und Regionen erfasst, sich in mehreren Wellen ausgebreitet und immer neue Epizentren gebildet. Sie hat das Alltagsleben der Menschen durchdrungen, soziale Beziehungen verändert, die...

"Discussing the Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDs, SARS and Ebola against the background of Covid-19, Pandemic Economics demonstrates how scientists consistently warned the world about pandemics, and how, despite this, the possibility of global lockdown caused unprecedented economic policies and ruin. The...

This paper examines empirically whether social protection in the form of adapted social assistance programmes are affecting social cohesion during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using unique primary data from nationally representative, in-person surveys from Kenya allows for the exploration of the...

"This book examines the initial impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global sport and the varying consequences of the sport shutdown on all levels of society. It also considers the 'way out' for stakeholders and how they can attempt to get back to where they were before the pandemic. Featuring...

Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks...

The disease burden of COVID-19 has been well documented around the world, but the economic cost has not. Consequently, no international studies analyze how the severity of the disease burden relates to job loss or other economic outcomes and only a handful have attempted to investigate how...