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10 March 2020

Explaining the COVID-19 outbreak and mitigation measures

Raya Muttarak writes about what we have learnt about the COVID-19 outbreak so far, and how collective mitigation measures could influence the spread of the disease.

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Strelkovskii, N. & Rovenskaya, E. (2021). Systems analysis of socio-economic impacts of COVID-19: State-of-the-Art, Gaps and Good Practices. In: COVID-19 PHSMs Research Outcome Conference, 5-6 October 2021.

Chen, S., Prettner, K., Kuhn, M., & Bloom, D.E. (2021). The economic burden of COVID-19 in the United States: Estimates and projections under an infection-based herd immunity approach. The Journal of the Economics of Ageing 20 e100328. 10.1016/j.jeoa.2021.100328.

Kikstra, J. , Vinca, A. , Lovat, F. , Boza-Kiss, B. , van Ruijven, B. , Wilson, C. , Rogelj, J. , Zakeri, B. , Fricko, O. , & Riahi, K. (2021). Data for climate mitigation scenarios with persistent COVID-19 related energy demand changes. 10.5281/zenodo.5211168.

Yazdanpanah, M., Zobeidi, T., Tajeri Moghadam, M., Komendantova, N. , Löhr, K., & Sieber, S. (2021). Cognitive theory of stress and farmers’ responses to the COVID 19 shock; a model to assess coping behaviors with stress among farmers in southern Iran. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 64 e102513. 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102513.

Fiedler, S., Wyser, K., Rogelj, J. , & van Noije, T. (2021). Radiative effects of reduced aerosol emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic and the future recovery. Atmospheric Research 264 e105866. 10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105866.

Strelkovskii, N. & Rovenskaya, E. (2021). Causal Loop Diagramming of Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19: State-of-the-Art, Gaps and Good Practices. Systems 9 (3) e65. 10.3390/systems9030065.

Poblete Cazenave, M. (2021). Simulating the Long-Term Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Sustainability of the Population-Economy-Environment Nexus. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change 5 415-430. 10.1007/s41885-021-00094-3.

Watanabe, C., Akhtar, W., Tou, Y., & Neittaanmäki, P. (2021). Amazon's New Supra-Omnichannel: Realizing Growing Seamless Switching for Apparel During COVID-19. Technology in Society 66 e101645. 10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101645.

Naqvi, A. (2021). COVID-19 European regional tracker. Scientific Data 8 (1) e181. 10.1038/s41597-021-00950-7.

Ghislandi, S., Muttarak, R. , Sauerberg, M., & Scotti, B. (2021). Human costs of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the major epicentres in Italy. In: Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2022. Eds. Di Giulio, P., Goujon, A. , Marois, G. , & Goldstein, J., Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 10.1553/populationyearbook2022.res2.1.