coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has evolved into a public health emergency of international concern and wreaked worldwide … vaccines at breakneck speed. This paper provides a health perspective of the virus and the pandemic it caused, based on … diagnostic methods; a rapid characterization of the disease and its impacts so as to better apply precautionary and public health …

Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well …-being, policymakers during the Covid-19 pandemic have sought the guidance of epidemiologists and economists. Unfortunately, while both … related fields (such as statistics, engineering, and health policy) to discuss approaches to modeling economy-wide pandemics …