Economics Blog

With COVID-19 cases again on the rise in the United States and around the world, vaccination campaigns continue to be of vital importance for a successful return to pre-pandemic life. A new study by Indiana University and RAND Corp. researchers assessed the impact of COVID-19 vaccination and found that 139,393 deaths were prevented during the …

Physical-distancing measures, also known as social distancing, in the wake of COVID-19 outbreaks were well underway before states began stay-at-home mandates, and consequently a substantial decline in mobility was a strong private-sector response to new information about the risk of infections. Those were among the key points made last month by Sumedha Gupta, an associate …