more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides information on spatial variation in Plague mortality at the city level … population returns to high-mortality locations endowed with more rural and urban fixed factors of production. Land suitability …

We present results on the mortality statistics of the COVID-19 epidemic in a number of countries. Our data analysis …) Northern Hemisphere developing countries and 5) Southern Hemisphere countries. Comparing the number of deaths per million … inhabitants, a pattern emerges in which the Western countries exhibit the largest mortality rate. Furthermore, comparing the …

and COVID-19 in terms of mortality. This essay reviews the mortality due to Ebola and plague and their lethality; the … spatial and socioeconomic dimensions of plague mortality; the role of public action in containing the two diseases; and their …