The latest instalment of Andrea Galeotti and Paolo Surico’s video explainer.
Why testing is crucial
Andrea Galeotti, Paolo Surico and Jakub Steiner clearly lay out the types and uses of testing and how it should be used to acquire crucial information and to provide necessary safety during reopening. An interview explaining this work is here, and a more technical and detailed version of there work is here.
Media coverage of Galeotti, Hohmann and Surico mortality estimates
Television report can be found here.
Data on work exposure by occupation
By O*net based on survey data of working conditions and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration.
Data on testing by country
Downloadable from Our World in Data.
Workers at risk in Italy
Analysis by the Bank of Italy about which occupations face the greatest risk. (In Italian, summary in English).
Contact data from survey by age and location
“Projecting social contact matrices in 152 countries using contact surveys and demographic data” by Kiesha Prem, Alex R. Cook
Hopkins time series
The course of the epidemic: can be found here on github.
Issues with the Santa Clara data
A critical review here. False positives are a big issue for this type of test.
Misinformation During a Pandemic
On this important topic, Nikolaj Broberg points us to a paper that examines the news coverage of the Corona pandemic in the two US cable news shows Hannity and Tucker Carlson Tonight (Fox).