Lightly reviewed scientific articles.
EU finance and the single market
Miguel Poiares Maduro on what the EU must do to preserve the single market during the recovery.
Estimating death rates
The Galeotti group has a new paper estimating death rates for several countries and providing the codes for applying the method to other countries.
Getting an accurate estimate of covid-19 deaths
Andrea Galeotti, Sebastian Hohmann and Paolo Surico have a project aimed at estimating Covid-19 mortality using excess mortality methods. They employing official statistics on total deaths in 2020 and their growth rates in the previous years over the same period. They aim to constantly update the analysis as new data becomes available. They also aim to add robustness checks and alternative methods to accurately determine Covid-19 deaths. Hence, this article will be updated as often as feasible.
They would like to replicate the analysis for as many countries as possible. If you have data or you know where we can access data in a country, please share them. They are happy to replicate the analysis, share the results with you, and update the analysis so that other people can access this information.
If you have the data and you want to perform the analysis yourself, in what follows you will find all material you need. However, we would appreciate if you share the results, with a summary of how you conducted the analysis. In particular, with explicit reference to changes in the codes or methodology. This is to assure that results are comparable across countries.
The article can be found here
The codes and documentation are here
Incentives for public health
David K. Levine argues that we need to focus on providing the private sector with appropriate incentives to produce safely.
They did restore our account without explaining either why they suspended it in the first place or why they restored it. I think it was the use of the magic threat word “interoperability.” Feel free to use it in your own dealing with Twitter.
Interview of Flavio Toxvaerd
Rupert Gatti interviews Flavio Toxvaerd about the economics of the pandemic for INET. Worth watching.
Help Keystone expand data on restrictions
Keystone who has collected local data about the nature and timing of restrictions is asking for help to expand their data. This is a good initiative: if you have data consider sharing with them.
Masks please
Mustafa Kaba draws our attention to an article about the usefulness and practicality of wearing masks by a group at Yale.
App and data for NYC
Grace Tsiang draws our attention to a useful new app and source of data for NYC.