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 … inhabitants, a pattern emerges in which the Western countries exhibit the largest mortality rate. Furthermore, comparing the … population, a main reason behind the relatively more severe COVID-19 epidemic in the Western countries is found to be their …

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 …

besides 1918 Spanish Influenza, especially milder pandemic episodes. These gaps are a consequence of academics working in …

Background: Identifying effective treatments and policies early in a pandemic is challenging because only limited and … beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: An information-theoretic inferential approach with and without prior information was … applied to the limited data available in the second month (April 24, 2020) of the COVID-19 pandemic. For comparison, a second …

establish a method for the study of excess mortality due to an epidemic and to quantify these effects in the context of the …The study of mortality is an ever-active field of research, and new methods or combinations of methods are constantly … being developed. In the actuarial domain, the study of phenomena disrupting mortality and leading to excess mortality, as in …