Showing posts with label covid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label covid. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Covid vaccines saved millions of lives, mostly of older people

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Here's a recent estimate of lives saved by Covid vaccines. Ioannidis JPA, Pezzullo AM, Cristiano A, Boccia S. Global Estimates of Lives...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Incentives to take tests and get vaccinated

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  As the pandemic phase of Covid-19 recedes, we can reflect on what we've learned about demand for tests and for vaccines.   Here's ...
Monday, December 4, 2023

Convalescent plasma: the picture is getting clearer

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  Slowly, there is evidence accumulating that convalescent plasma is helpful in treating patients with severe Covid, if it is administered e...
Monday, September 4, 2023

Covid medication: allocation, information, hesitancy, and uptake: what are some things we have learned?

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 I've posted before about how informational advertising  about vaccine availability and safety seems to have had a positive effect on va...
Monday, March 6, 2023

Reconsideration of covid convalescent plasma

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Recently Statnews reported that Covid convalescent plasma (CCP) may in fact be useful in preventing severe illness, despite the fact that e...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Social media advertising and COVID vaccination, in PNAS

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  Vaccine rollout is different than allocating other (initially) scarce goods because it involves overcoming vaccine hesitancy.  Here's ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

"Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences," in Nature

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  Here's a recent article in Nature whose title effectively summarizes its conclusions, and brings some evidence from RCTs to bear on th...
Saturday, December 17, 2022

Economics of pandemic vaccination in Oxford Review of Economic Policy

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Vaccine development and distribution during the Covid pandemic has had some notable successes and some significant shortcomings.  Here's...