new hospital beds. The coronavirus pandemic created a surge in demand for medical services, which might be exacerbated in … United States during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. CON laws limit the expansion and acquisition of new medical services, such as … some states that have CON laws. Our investigation focuses on mortality due to COVID and non-COVID reasons and understanding …

pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional …This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …

The global COVID-19 pandemic recalls the Ebola epidemic of 2014-15 and earlier much more lethal plague epidemics. All … 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 …

This study examines the effect of the elderly population on SARS-CoV-2 Disease (COVID-19) mortality for a sample of 146 … countries. It shows that the elderly population is robustly associated with higher COVID-19 mortality. This effect, however …