This chapter describes the initial COVID-19 crisis at SBH Health System in the Bronx, New York, USA, and shows its unfolding surge over time alongside an overview of the response. While the COVID-19 crisis has unique characteristics, many lessons learned from this crisis can be applied to ...
GUAM, United States, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Navy is scrabling to find ways to evacuate and quaratine more than 4,000 sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier, where COVID-19 infection is spreading rapidly. Here is a timeline of the COVID-19 outbreak on the Ni...
The novel coronavirus proliferated across the globe and has since become the greatest public health crisis the world has faced in over a century [3]. One year into the pandemic, as of early March 2021, there have been over 100 million global cases and over 2 million deaths reported [4]....
As the timeline below indicates, the financial crisis in the fall of last year was so dangerous that the Fed had pumped a cumulative $6.6trillionin repo loans to the trading houses on Wall Street a month prior to the first reported death from COVID-19 in the United States. Timeline of t...
Two lessons from the J&J fiasco carry implications going forward. First, vaccine regulation can be quick to authorize in times of crisis, but far slower to address serious safety concerns. This remains a problem. And second, in a new year, and with a new president, media and pundits would...
COVID-19 Dividends Share repurchases Cash holdings G-7 countries 1. Introduction COVID-19, declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global pandemic in March 2020, is a health crisis that caused tremendous economic disruption around the world. For many businesses, it led to a sign...
Feverish sentiment and global equity markets during the COVID-19 pandemic 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Show abstractView all citing articles on Scopus 1 For a timeline of the COVID-19 crisis see https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-timeline.html 2 https://ourworld...
19, the volumes supplied by secondary suppliers increased due to the crisis of the primary ones.” More than three-quarters of the firms had identified different possible suppliers before the pandemic spread, but some activated multiple sourcing only after the crisis outbreak, relying on pre-...
The current COVID-19 epidemiological situation alerts the world to be prepared for the global health crisis. Many countries have implemented lockdown measures to control the epidemic progression [4,5,6] at different times (Fig. 1). Specific lockdown [7,8,9,10] measures adopted included ...