Peter Doshi: Will covid-19 vaccines save lives? Current trials aren’t designed to tell us, in: BMJ 2020;371:m4037 (21 October 2020). Publicly accepted criteria for a vaccine are a) reduction of hospital admissions and mortality, b) stopping transmission and c) safety of the vaccine or its side effects. In his report, Peter Doshi asks what it means when a vaccine is declared effective.
Monthly archives: November 2020
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Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Markus Lampe, Maja Uhre Pedersen, Paul Sharp: Pandemics and Protectionism: Evidence from the “Spanish” flu, in: CAGE working paper No. 479, June 2020. There has been much speculation about the impact of COVID-19 on recent trends towards international isolationism, but according to the authors of this article, that remains to be seen. They assume that valuable evidence can be gained from the “Spanish” flu of 1918-20.
Prema-chandra Athukorala, Chaturica Athukorala: The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-20: An interpretative survey in the time of COVID-19, in: WIDER Working Paper 2020/124, Oktober 2020.
No dilution of the legislative initiative on the meat industry! On October 29th, the German Bundestag was to pass the Federal Government’s draft for the Occupational Safety and Health Control Act in the meat industry in its last reading. Under pressure from parts of the CDU/CSU, the vote has now been postponed. The opponents of the draft law want to prevent, among other things, the planned ban on temporary work.
Loretta J. Mester: Payments and the Pandemic. Keynote Speech: 20th Anniversary Chicago Payments Symposium – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, September 23, 2020. In her keynote speech, Loretta J. Mester, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, discussed the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on the US payments industry. In order to address the payment traffic problems associated with the pandemic, the FedNow real-time payment system should be developed, to which every US citizen and company should be connected. Mester also advocates the introduction of a digital currency by the central banks.
Matthias Schrappe, Hedwig François-Kettner, Matthias Gruhl, Dieter Hart, Franz Knieps, Philipp Manow, Holger Pfaff, Klaus Püschel, Gerd Glaeske: Thesenpapier 5.0. Die Pandemie durch SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19. Spezifische Prävention als Grundlage der „Stabilen Kontrolle“ der SARS-CoV-2-Epidemie [Thesis paper 5.0. The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19. Specific prevention as the basis for “stable control” of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic], Köln, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg (25. Oktober 2020).
Matthias Schrappe, Hedwig François-Kettner, Matthias Gruhl, Dieter Hart, Franz Knieps, Philipp Manow, Holger Pfaff, Klaus Püschel, Gerd Glaeske: Thesenpapier 4.0 Die Pandemie durch SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 – der Übergang zur chronischen Phase – Verbesserung der Outcomes in Sicht Stabile Kontrolle: Würde und Humanität wahren Diskursverengung vermeiden: Corona nicht politisieren [Thesis Paper 4.0 The Pandemic through SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 – the Transition to the Chronic Phase – Improving Outcomes in Sight Stable Control. Maintaining dignity and humanity. Avoid narrowing of discourse. Do not politicize Corona], Köln, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg (30. August 2020).