Jordà Òscar, Sanjay R. Singh, Alan M. Taylor: Longer-Run Economic Consequences of Pandemics, in: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper 2020-09 (June 2020). The authors ask how major pandemics affect economic activity in the medium to longer term and whether the effects are consistent with what economic theory suggests. Since pandemics are rare events, they collected historical evidence from many centuries. The authors have examined asset returns using a dataset dating back to the 14th century, focusing on 12 major pandemics in which more than 100,000 people died. They also included major armed conflicts, which claimed a similar […]
Monthly archives: July 2020
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Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Robert Gebeloff: Push for Profits Left Nursing Homes Struggling to Provide Care, in: The New York Times (May 7, 2020). In this article, the authors describe how the need to work profitably undermined the ability of nursing homes to deal adequately with the Covid 19 pandemic.
Sharon Begley: To understand who’s dying of Covid-19 look to social factors like race more than preexisting diseases, in STAT, 15. Juni 2020. In her article on the STAT-News page, Begely argues that the decisive factors for dying from COVID-19 are not preexisting diseases as initially assumed. In the US, people are exposed to a significantly higher risk of dying from COVID-19 due to racist ascriptions. “The higher the percentage of Black residents in a county, the higher its death rate from Covid-19 “. Begely sees the reasons for this in the qualitatively different access to the health system, but […]
A. Danielle Iuliano u.a.: Estimates of global seasonal influenza-associated respiratory mortality: a modelling study, in: The Lancet, Issue. 10127 (2018) Vol. 391, pp. 1285-1300.