We examine the extent to which exposure to higher relative COVID-19 mortality (RM), influences health system trust (HST), and whether changes in HST influence the perceived ease of compliance with pandemic restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on evidence from two representative...

Long-standing and deeply embedded institutional racism, notably anti-Black racism in US health care, has provided a solid footing for the health inequities by race evident in the COVID-19 pandemic. Inequities in susceptibility, exposure, infection, hospitalization, and treatment reflect and...

An Introduction to Biopolitics and Shock Economy of COVID-19: Medical Perspectives and Socioeconomic Dynamics -- Medical Perspective on COVID-19 -- Advances in the Application of Geospatial Technology in the Mitigation of COVID-19 Pandemic -- The Ontological Nature and Cause of COVID-19: A...

This paper studies the effect of the long-term closure of office-based physician practices on patient healthcare utilization. First we show that the exit rate of office-based physician practices increased in 2020 using data from a nationwide US claims database. Treating this as a supply shock to...

Background: This study seeks to measure the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare jobs in Ohio. We examine whether healthcare sector workers were similarly affected compared to workers in other industries in Ohio and if there were any significant differences in job categories within the healthcare...