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This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of the pandemic with large cross-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired...
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Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of … mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date of NPI adoption by one day lowers the COVID-19 death rate by 2 … lower non-COVID mortality, suggesting that these measures slowed contagion and the pace at which the healthcare system might …
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uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to explore the determinants of pandemic … mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i) pre-pandemic population health and poverty, ii) air pollution, and iii … the distribution of pre-pandemic infant mortality had 21 excess deaths per 10,000 residents in 1918 relative to cities in …
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systematic fashion. Using newly digitized mortality data at the municipal level for the period 1900-1917, we explore the … requirement was associated with a 6 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality, while the opening of a state-run sanatorium was … associated with an almost 4 percent decrease in pulmonary TB mortality. However, these and other anti-TB measures can explain, at …
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