From Jan Kulveit: A very inexpensive and effective mitigation measure is the compulsory wearing of masks. This has been implemented in several Asian countries. Masks do not protect the wearer – but they protect from infection by pre-symptomatic and asymoptomatic individuals. They also remind everyone of the need for distancing and lack of a mask is a signal of someone not taking the situation seriously and so should be avoided. Additional policy recommendations from his group here.
Epidemic forecasting
Jan Kulveit’s group has a global epidemiological model that you can experiment with and will do more sophisticated modeling pro-bono for decision makers and health care planners. Details at epidemicforecasting.org.
Estimates of active cases
Jan Kulveit’s group has estimates of the number of actives cases – very different from the number of confirmed cases because of variation in testing. These numbers are much larger than the number of confirmed cases.
Transition back to work
Andrea Ichino’s group describe transition steps to stop COVID-19 without killing the world economy in VOXEU.
Global impact of Covid-19
Flavio Toxvaerd on the global impact of covid-19.
Cost and benefits of quarantine
Eline van den Broek-Altenburg and Adam Atherly analyze the economic costs and benefits of quarantine measures.
Basics of Covid-19
Andrea Galeotti and Paolo Surico explain the basic trade-offs and facts of Covid-19. The video is here and the complete set of slides here. Some details here.