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

This paper examines the causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Using an instrumental variable approach, we show that a 1-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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Hauptverfasser:	Chen, Simiao (VerfasserIn) , Jin, Zhangfeng (VerfasserIn) , Vollmer, Sebastian (VerfasserIn) , Bärnighausen, Till (VerfasserIn) , Bloom, David E. (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp:	Book/Monograph Arbeitspapier
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Essen Global Labor Organization (GLO) 2021
Schriftenreihe:	GLO discussion paper no. 931
In:	GLO discussion paper (no. 931)
Schlagworte:	Graue Literatur
Online-Zugang:	Verlag, kostenfrei: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/240910/1/GLO-DP-0931.pdf Resolving-System, kostenfrei: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/240910
Verfasserangaben:	Simiao Chen, Zhangfeng Jin, Sebastian Vollmer, Till Bärnighausen, David E. Bloom