This is in contrast to wars that have the opposite effect: they destroy capital while pandemics do not – wars trigger higher real interest rates, implying greater economic activity, while pandemics trigger lower real rates, implying sluggish economic activity. In addition, consumers tend to react ...
A deeper look at the Asian American community highlights potential blind spots in business-decision and policy making, as well as in broader inclusion and equity efforts. The impact of COVID-19 on Asian American lives and livelih...
New York is responding to growing clusters of coronavirus cases in 20 "hotspot" ZIP codes that are reporting positivity rates, or the number of tests coming back positive, far above other parts of the state, according to a statement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on Saturday. More than ha...
Hedges and safe havens: An examination of stocks, bonds, gold, oil and exchange rates International Review of Financial Analysis, 29 (2013), pp. 202-211, 10.1016/j.irfa.2012.12.001 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Conlon and McGee, 2020 T. Conlon, R. McGee Safe haven or...
Infectious disease experts expected this shift in mild illness, given that “virtually everyone has either experienced COVID infection or vaccination or both,” Schaffner said. “We all have a certain level of immunity, and when we encounter the virus, we're better prepared to fend it ...
that global immunization coverage has been largely unchanged since 2022 and has not returned to 2019 levels. This reflects challenges with disruptions in healthcare services, logistics, vaccine hesitancy and inequities in access to services. The data shows that vaccination rates against the deadly measl...
The high infection rates will continue in January, according to Henrik Nielsen, professor and chief physician at Aalborg University Hospital's Department of Infectious Diseases. "I choose to see the positive in the fact that the increase in the number of hospital admissions has not continued today...
Various non-pharmaceutical interventions were adopted by countries worldwide in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic with adverse socioeconomic side effects, which raises the question about their differential effectiveness. We estimate the average dynamic effect of each intervention on the incidence of...
However, numerous studies have shown that planned home or birth center births have lower rates of medical intervention (e.g., C-section, Pitocin) than planned hospital births, and that there is no difference in maternal and neonatal outcomes between low-risk hospital births and home births (...
Although the first month of 2022 saw record-breaking daily infection rates in the country, Frederiksen said that Wednesday's decision meant "coronavirus should no longer be considered a socially critical disease." She added: "The high adherence to vaccines turned out to be ... our super weapon...