Using testing to restart the economy
Dewatripont et al on using testing to safely restart the economy.
Diamond Princess data
Russell et al article analyzing the Diamond Princess data.
US county data on reported cases
New York Times county level data on cumulative US known cases. Updated occasionally so best to download directly from github.
Macroeconomics of epidemics
Martin S. Eichenbaum, Sergio Rebelo, Mathias Trabandt “The Macroeconomics of Epidemics”
Data on reported cases
Worldometer’s estimates of known (not active) cases and deaths. This is a commercial website, known cases is not that useful, and reporting varies around the world, but they provide detailed information about sources.
Impact of interventions on infection
From Susan Athey and Keystone Strategy: estimates of the impact of interventions on the infection rate.
Data on active cases
From Jan Kulveit’s group: estimates of active cases (not reported cases); estimates of the effect of mitigation measures
Nationalize patents?
A key obstacle to the technological progress we need to defeat the Covid-19 epidemic is intellectual property. There is an initiative to encourage temporary licensing to speed the development and dissemination of new technologies. Please publicise and support this.
The problem of mismatched workers
Michele Belot on the problem of taxi drivers who sit idle while groceries remain undelivered.