Act early to prevent infections and save lives: causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper examines the impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic. Using an exogenous policy on diagnostic confirmation, we show that a one- day decrease in the time taken to confirm the first case in a city publicly led to 9.4% and 12.7% reductions in COVID-19 prevalence and mortalit...

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Main Authors:	Chen, Simiao (Author) , Jin, Zhangfeng (Author) , Bloom, David E. (Author)
Format:	Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	Bonn, Germany IZA - Institute of Labor Economics September 2020
Series:	Discussion paper series / IZA no. 13749
In:	Discussion paper series (no. 13749)
Subjects:	Graue Literatur
Online Access:	Verlag, kostenfrei: http://ftp.iza.org/dp13749.pdf Verlag, kostenfrei: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13749/act-early-to-prevent-infections-and-save-lives-causal-impact-of-diagnostic-efficiency-on-the-covid-19-pandemic Resolving-System, kostenfrei: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/227276
Author Notes:	Simiao Chen, Zhangfeng Jin, David E. Bloom