Max Roser
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An Interview with Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Economics – Yale University
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Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. In this interview he has shared his views on a wide range of topics; Insights from his...
EJM - Econ Job Market
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The Klasen Fellowship - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Max Roser In honour of Professor Stephan Klasen the Faculty of Business and Economics at the Uni Göttingen has established two new postdoctoral positions — the Klasen Fellowship — for researchers from low- and middle-income countries. You can apply here 29h
Schweiz: Das Corona-Testing wurde zu kleinflächig ausgebaut
Neue Zürcher Zeitung 46h 3 tweets
Politiker und Experten waren sich nach den Erfahrungen im Frühling einig: Um die Pandemie zu bekämpfen, Infektionsketten zu brechen und weitere Lockdowns zu vermeiden, muss das Testing grossflächig ausgebaut werden. Unsere Datenanalyse zeigt, dass...
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Understanding COVID-19 vaccine efficacy
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Vaccine efficacy in high-risk groups and reduced viral shedding are important for protection
Coronavirus: preparing for challenges this winter | The Academy of Medical Sciences
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Climate change and flying: what share of global CO2 emissions come from aviation?
Our World in Data - Our World in Data 51h 4 tweets
Flying is a highly controversial topic in climate debates. It accounts for around 2.5% of global CO2 emissions, but 3.5% when we take non-CO2 impacts on climate into account.
Maps in support of the Council Recommendation on a coordinated approach to the restriction of free movement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the EU/EEA and the UK
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Maps showing the 14-day notification rate of new COVID-19 cases per 100 000 inhabitants at subnational level, national weekly COVID-19 testing rates per 100 000 inhabitants, testing positivity rates, and a subnational map with a combined indicator.
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Max Roser A very good idea for how to show the COVID case data – done by the . The color here communicates both the case rate and the positive rate in each region. A region is only green if their case rate and their positive rate are low. [source: ] 51h
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News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
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Max Roser Hey , yes Hal Varian is a respected economist, but in the context of his perspective on whether Google has monopoly power or not I think you should also mention to your readers that since 2002 Varian is Google's chief economist. 54h
James Randi, Magician Who Debunked Paranormal Claims, Dies at 92
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Known professionally as the Amazing Randi, he dedicated his life to exposing seers who did not see, healers who did not heal and many others.
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Max Roser Very sad to hear that James Randi has died For a beautiful portrait of the man I recommend watching the documentary 'An Honest Liar'. 54h
A New Day for Nuclear Advocacy… and Environmentalism?
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The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Oakland, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges in three areas: energy,...
The COVID-19 response illustrates that traditional academic reward structures and metrics do not reflect crucial contributions to modern science
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The COVID-19 pandemic has motivated many open and collaborative analytical research projects with real-world impact. However, despite their value, such activities are generally overlooked by traditional academic metrics. Science is ultimately...
Externalities and Incentives: The Economics of COVID | Marginal Revolution University
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Why do vaccines have a “positive externality”? What does that mean?
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Max Roser This by is a very clear explanation of a big problem that the world has right now: the benefit from a COVID vaccine would be hugely beneficial for our health and lives – but innovators are under-incentivized to develop them. What can we do? 3d
Confirmed COVID-19 deaths vs. Population density
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Shown is the total number of confirmed deaths due to COVID-19.
Max Roser Because some people believe that differences in population density matter very much for the severity of COVID pandemic, here is the data across countries in the world. The lack of any correlation makes me think that it cannot play a very important role. 3d
Local corona recommendations introduced for Uppsala - Radio Sweden
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Starting today, the Public Health Agency and Region Uppsala will implement local Covid-19 recommendations to combat the spread of the virus in the ...
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Max Roser The rate of confirmed COVID cases in Sweden continues to rise. In reaction to this local authorities have now introduced new recommendations: 3d
Parliamentlive.tv
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Science and Technology Committee and Health and Social Care Committee
Max Roser If you are interested, the event is public: There are also two relevant sessions following ours. 3d
Will a vaccine cure Covid? - UnHerd
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Even if it's effective, the logistics of delivering it are monumental
Magnitude, demographics and dynamics of the effect of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on all-cause mortality in 21 industrialized countries
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Application of Bayesian models to vital statistics data from 21 industrialized countries shows that approximately 206,000 additional people died than if the COVID-19 pandemic had not occured. The heterogeneous distribution of excess deaths across...
Max Roser A good paper on excess mortality during the pandemic Also very clear about the limitations of this measure (the main one obviously being that we don’t have information about the causes of death, but also large uncertainty intervals as they explain). 4d
SeroTracker
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SeroTracker's serology testing dashboard monitors and visualizes SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence studies.
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Max Roser There is a global database that aggregates seroprevalence studies for COVID-19: It is documented in this paper in the Lancet: 4d