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Since its launch in March 2020, the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), based at the Blavatnik School of Government, has become a key global resource. Its open-source, real-time data have been used by policymakers around the world and cited in thousands of COVID-19 research studies.This impact is only possible because of the hard work of the more than 1,500

The ongoing benefits of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for respiratory infectious diseases in China are still unclear. We aimed to explore the changes in seven respiratory infectious diseases before, during, and after COVID-19 in China from 2010 to 2021. The monthly case numbers of seven respiratory infectious diseases were extracted to construct autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models. Eight indicators of NPIs were chosen from the COVI...

Researchers explored the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on political unrest exacerbated by pandemic fatigue.

Factors that contributed to higher death rates among Blacks persisted, but adherence to protective measures widened along political lines, lifting fatality rates in Whites.

MADISON — The early months of the COVID-19 pandemic were marked by far higher death rates among Black people than white people in the United States. Before 20

I interview the economics and political science editor of the journal Nature Human Behaviour to find out more what they are looking for in papers, and answer some questions about this new journal.

Utilising the third round of World Bank Survey data collected during September 2020, the employment shocks in rural India are analysed based on the gender, age, caste, and income quartile of individuals. Using graphical representations and simple mean tests, it is found that, on average, females in rural areas did not have an occupation relative to males in most of the states

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a serious public health challenge the world over, has led to significant health concerns in Sierra Leone. In the present study, epidemic indices, such as the number of cases, positivity rate, reproduction rate (R0), case fatality rate (CFR), age, and sex, were used to characterize the epidemiological trends of COVID-19. As of October 31, 2021, a total of 6,398 cases and 121 related deaths had been confirmed. The total number of COVID-19 reverse transcription ...

India announced a fiscal package worth `1.7 trillion to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but there were arguments for more spending. Using data from a cross-section of countries, this paper estimates the relationship between fiscal spending and the spread of COVID-19, economic stringency, and macroeconomic factors. It argues that subsidy rationalisation is the way to fund the

The Philippines climbed to the 33rd spot in Nikkei Asia’s latest COVID-19 Recovery Index that ranks over 120 countries based on reinfection management,