Coronavirus Pandemic

• How good is the U.S. economy? It’s beating pre-pandemic predictions. By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, December 8, 2023
  
• The Big Fail by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), November 28, 2023 [Review of post mortems of US response.]
  
• Where did the covid aid money go? The Washington Post, December 3, 2022
  
• Millions in covid aid went to retrain veterans. Only 397 landed jobs. By Lisa Rein and Yeganeh Torbati, The Washington Post, August 25, 2022
  
• How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While Covid Killed a Million Americans By Damien Cave, The New York Times, May 16, 2022
  
• How misinformation and the partisan divide drove a surge in U.S. COVID deaths PBS Newshour, YouTube, May 11, 2022
  
• Death Toll During Pandemic Far Exceeds Totals Reported by Countries, W.H.O. Says By Benjamin Mueller and Stephanie Nolen, The New York Times, May 6, 2022
  
• Global excess deaths associated with COVID-19, January 2020 - December 2021 World Health Organization, May 2022
  
• New Rule: American Kleptocracy Real Time with Bill Maher, YouTube, April 29, 2022
  
• Where $5 Trillion in Pandemic Stimulus Money Went By Alicia Parlapiano, Deborah B. Solomon, Madeleine Ngo and Stacy Cowley, The New York Times, March 11, 2022
  
•  Robust COVID Relief Achieved Historic Gains Against Poverty and Hardship, Bolstered Economy By Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 24, 2022
  
• Two years into the pandemic, America has become the land of the bulging bank accounts By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, February 23, 2022
  
• Most Americans have come out ahead economically in the pandemic, despite inflation By John Harwood, CNN, February 13, 2022
  
• U.S. Has Far Higher Covid Death Rate Than Other Wealthy Countries By Benjamin Mueller and Eleanor Lutz, The New York Times, Feb. 1, 2022
  
• Halting Progress and Happy Accidents: How mRNA Vaccines Were Made By Gina Kolata and Benjamin Mueller, The New York Times, Jan. 15, 2022
  
• Wonking Out: France’s Economy Is Having a Good Pandemic by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 14, 2022
  
• What we learned during the pandemic about the effectiveness of cash assistance By Kim R. Ford, The Washington Post, December 22, 2021
  
• Remote Work Is Failing Young Employees By Anne Helen Petersen and Charlie Warzel, The New York Times, November 22, 2021
  
• An Unsolved Mystery: Why Do More Men Die of Covid-19? By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The New York Times, November 2, 2021 
• Serendipity and foresight prepared the world to fight the coronavirus By Carolyn Johnson, The Washington Post, October 1, 2021 [When the coronavirus pandemic hit last year, Barney Graham’s team at the National Institutes of Health raced to develop a vaccine.]
• A scientific hunch. Then silence. Until the world needed a lifesaving vaccine. By Carolyn Johnson, The Washington Post, October 1, 2021 [On the contributions of Dr. Drew Weissman]
• A one-way ticket. A cash-stuffed teddy bear. A dream decades in the making. By Carolyn Johnson, The Washington Post, October 1, 2021 [On the contributions of Dr. Katalin Kariko]
• ‘Uncontrolled Spread’ Review: Tested and Found Wanting By Alex Tabarrok, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 14, 2021 [Review of ‘Uncontrolled Spread’ by Scott Gottlieb.]
  
• Pandemic Aid Programs Spur a Record Drop in Poverty By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, July 28, 2021
  
• Officially, the pandemic recession lasted only two months. By Ben Casselman, The New York Times, July 19, 2021
  
• Opinion: Vermont’s and South Dakota’s covid infection rates are remarkably similar — but their outcomes are not By Ashish K. Jha, The Washinton Post, July 13, 2021
  
• Monthly Payments to Families With Children to Begin By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, July 12, 2021
  
• How a Hobbled Main Street Survived the Pandemic ‘Asteroid’ By Jonno Rattman, Michael Corkery, Alana Celii and Gabriel Gianordoli, The New York Times, June 1, 2021
  
• Covid Proved the C.D.C. Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed? By Jeneen Interlandi and Brian Rea, The New York Times Magazine, June 20, 2021
  
• Welcome to the 'Take This Job and Shove It' Economy The Ezra Klein Show (podcast), The New York Tims, June 18, 2021 [Interview of Betsey Stevenson]
  
• How the US won the economic recovery By Dylan Matthews, Vox, April 30, 2021
  
• As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted By Jeffrey Gettleman, Sameer Yasir, Hari Kumar and Suhasini Raj. Photographs by Atul Loke. The New York Times, April 24, 2021
  
• World Happiness Report is out, with a surprising picture of global resilience By Ryan Bacic, The Washington Post, March 23, 2021
• World Happiness Report 2021  Citation: Helliwell, John F., Richard Layard, Jeffrey Sachs, and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, eds. 2021. World Happiness Report 2021. New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
• Covid? What Covid? Taiwan Thrives as a Bubble of Normality. By Amy Qin and Amy Chang Chien, The New York Times, March 13, 2021
  
• To Juice the Economy, Biden Bets on the Poor By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, March 6, 2021
  
• How Economist Emily Oster Ended Up at the Center of the Fight Over Schools Reopening By Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, March 4, 2021
  
• Mexico is vaccinating its poorest citizens first — against the advice of health experts By Kevin Sieff and Paulina Villegas, The Washington Post, Feb. 26, 2021
  
• Who Spent Their Last Stimulus Checks? By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Michael Stepner, The New York Times, Feb. 8, 2021 
• The Biden stimulus is admirably ambitious. But it brings some big risks, too. By Lawrence H. Summers, The Washington Post, February 4, 2021
  
• Power, Patriotism and 1.4 Billion People: How China Beat the Virus and Roared Back By Steven Lee Myers, Keith Bradsher, Sui-Lee Wee and Chris Buckley, The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2021
  
• Good Vaccine News By David Leonhardt, The New York Times, February 1, 2021
  
• India: has the Covid pandemic started to burn itself out? By Amy Kazmin, The Financial Times, January 30, 2021
  
• From Michael Lewis, a ‘Superhero Story’ About the Pandemic By Alexandra Alter, The New York Times, Jan. 28, 2021
  
• Shutdowns by Democratic governors did not cause the pandemic jobs crisis By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, Jan. 25, 2021
  
• One Year, 400,000 Coronavirus Deaths: How the U.S. Guaranteed Its Own Failure By Sarah Mervosh, Mike Baker, Patricia Mazzei and Mark Walker, The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2021
  
• How Singapore Has Kept the Coronavirus Off Campus By Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times, Jan. 9, 2021
  
• Trump’s Focus as the Pandemic Raged: What Would It Mean for Him? By Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman, Noah Weiland, Sharon LaFraniere and Mark Mazzetti, The New York Times, Dec. 31, 2020
  
• Covid-19 Was Consuming India, Until Nearly Everyone Started Wearing Masks By Eric Bellman, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 30, 2020
  
• Stimulus Money Should Have Gone to the Jobless, Economists Say By Nelson D. Schwartz and Gillian Friedman, The New York Times, Dec. 30, 2020
  
• Employment recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic By  Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, Peter B. Meyer, Joseph Piacentini, Michael Schultz, and Leo Sveikauskas, Monthly Labor Review, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, December 2020, https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2020.27. 
  
• The U.S. was supposed to be equipped to handle a pandemic. So what went wrong? By The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, December 26, 2020
  
• The CDC’s failed race against covid-19: A threat underestimated and a test overcomplicated By David Willman, The Washington Post, Dec. 26, 2020
  
• The Ghost of Sabotage Future By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 21, 2020
  
• Congress Passes Huge Coronavirus Relief Bill By Emily Cochrane, The New York Times, Dec. 21, 2020
  
• Time for a Second Round of PPP By Michael Faulkender and Stephen Miran, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 17, 2020
• The Job-Preservation Effects of Paycheck Protection Program Loans By Michael Faulkender, Robert Jackman, and Stephen I. Miran, Office of Economic Policy, Working Paper 2020-01, December 2020
  
• Getting Everyone Vaccinated, With ‘Nudges’ and Charity Auctions By Richard H. Thaler, The New York Times, December 9, 2020
  
• The Pandemic Is Showing Us How Capitalism Is Amazing, and Inadequate By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, November 14, 2020.
  
• With Covid-19 Under Control, China’s Economy Surges Ahead By Keith Bradsher, The New York Times, Oct. 19, 2020
  
• The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord by Matthew Desmond, The New York Times Magazine,  October 14, 2020
  
• The Other Way Covid Will Kill: Hunger By Peter S. Goodman, Abdi Latif Dahir and Karan Deep Singh, The New York Times, Sept. 11, 2020
  
• How Hunger Persists in a Rich Country Like America By Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, The New York Times Magazine, Sept. 2, 2020
  
• First Famines of Coronavirus Era Are at World’s Doorstep, U.N. Warns By Rick Gladstone, The New York Times, Sept. 5, 2020
  
• The Senate Is on Vacation While Americans Starve By Janet Yellen and Jared Bernstein, The New York Times, Aug. 24, 2020
  
• $300 Unemployment Benefit: Who Will Get It and When? By Patricia Cohen and Tiffany Hsu, The New York Times, Aug. 23, 2020
  
• In China, Where the Pandemic Began, Life Is Starting to Look … Normal By Javier C. Hernández, The New York Times, Published Aug. 23, 2020
  
• Virus Alters Where People Open Their Wallets, Hinting at a Halting Recovery By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Ella Koeze and Sapna Maheshwari, The New York Times, Aug. 19, 2020
• Manhattan Vacancy Rate Climbs, and Rents Drop 10% By Matthew Haag, The New York Times, Aug. 18, 2020
  
• A global debt crisis is looming – how can we prevent it? By Joseph Stiglitz and Hamid Rashid, The Guardian, August 3, 2020
  
• Amid a Deadly Virus and Crippled Economy, One Form of Aid Has Proved Reliable: Food Stamps By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, July 19, 2020
  
• Covid 19, globotics, and development By  Richard Baldwin and Rikard Forslid, VoxEU, 16 July 2020
• As the Trump disaster gets worse, a new political theory helps explain it by Greg Sargent, The Washington Post, July 15, 2020
  
• Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages? By Veronica Guerrieri, Guido Lorenzoni, Ludwig Straub, Iván Werning, NBER Working Paper No. 26918, April 2020
• Veronica Guerrieri on COVID-19: Can Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages? Princeton Economics (YouTube channel), June 19, 2020
• Viral recessions: Lack of demand during the coronavirus crisis By Veronica Guerrieri, Guido Lorenzoni, Ludwig Straub, Iván Werning, voxeu.org, 06 May 2020
  
• How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? A New Real-Time Economic Tracker Based on Private Sector Data By Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Nathaniel Hendren, Michael Stepner, The Opportunity Insights Team (Working Paper), May 2020
• Raj Chetty on the economic impacts of COVID-19: Real-time evidence from private sector data Princeton Economics (YouTube channel), June 17, 2020
  
• A new paper finds stimulus checks, small business aid, and “reopening” can’t rescue the economy By Dylan Matthews, vox.com, Jun 17, 2020
• The Rich Cut Their Spending. That Has Hurt All the Workers Who Count on It. By Emily Badger and Alicia Parlapiano, The New York Times, June 17, 2020
  
• What a successful economic recovery plan must look like By Jason Furman, Timothy Geithner, Glenn Hubbard and Melissa S. Kearney, The Washington Post, June 16, 2020
  
• After the Pandemic, a Global Hunger Crisis By Arif Husain, The New York Times, June 12, 2020
  
• New Rules of Retirement By Washington Post Staff, The Washington Post, May 15, 2020
  
• What happens if you get coronavirus at work? Experts say it might be hard to prove. By Lateshia Beachum, The Washington Post, May 29, 2020
  
• On the Economics of Not Dying  By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 28, 2020
• Coronavirus: Spain set for basic income to ease crisis pain  BBC, May 18, 2020
•  America risks doing too little, not too much, to save the economy  By Emily Stewart, vox.com, May 15, 2020
• Sweden Stayed Open. A Deadly Month Shows the Risks.  By Lauren Leatherby and Allison McCann, The New York Times, May 15, 2020
• I Live in Sweden. I’m Not Panicking.  By Maud Cordenius, The New York Times, May 15, 2020
• Reopening the Economy Would Add 233,000 Deaths by July but Save Millions of Jobs  By Andrew Soergel, U.S. News & World Report, May 1, 2020
• Restarting America Means People Will Die. So When Do We Do It?  By The New York Times Magazine, April 10, 2020
• ‘Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms.  By Abdi Latif Dahir, The New York Times, April 23, 2020
• A Tale of Two Possible Recoveries  by N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, April 16, 2020
• It’s the End of the World Economy as We Know It  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, April 16, 2020
• A Gloomy Prediction on How Much Poverty Could Rise  By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, April 16, 2020
• Straggling in a Good Economy, and Now Struggling in a Crisis  By Patricia Cohen, The New York Times, April 17, 2020
• 11 concrete steps the government can take to avert economic disaster  By Matthew Yglesias, vox.com, April 13, 2020
• Donald Trump is wrong, the economic hit of the coronavirus will last for years  By Barry Eichengreen, The Guardian (via Project Syndicate), April 13, 2020
• Fauci confirms New York Times report Trump rebuffed social distancing advice  By Martin Pengelli, The Guardian, April 12, 2020
•  Inequality doesn't just make pandemics worse – it could cause them  By Laura Spinney, The Guardian, April 12, 2020
• He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus  By Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, Mark Mazzetti and Julian E. Barnes, The New York Times, April 11, 2020
• Everything Is Awful. So Why Is the Stock Market Booming?  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, April 10, 2020
• Robots Welcome to Take Over, as Pandemic Accelerates Automation  By Michael Corkery and David Gelles, The New York Times, April 10, 2020
• Predictions for the Coronavirus Stock Market  By Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, April 2, 2020
• Virus lays bare the frailty of the social contract  by The Editorial Board, The Financial Times, April 3, 2020
• PANDUMBIC (Official Trailer)  The Daily Show, March 10, 2020
• Saluting the Heroes of the Coronavirus Pandumbic  The Daily Show, April 3, 2020
• Why Is Price-Gouging Bad?  by Paul Krugman, April 2020
• The dark side of ventilators: Those hooked up for long periods face difficult recoveries  By Carolyn Y. Johnson and Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post, April 3, 2020
• Testing Is Our Way Out  By Paul Romer and Rajiv Shah, The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2020
• Jobs Aren’t Being Destroyed This Fast Elsewhere. Why Is That?  By Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The New York Times, March 30, 2020
• How You Can Protect Your Community, Not Just Your Own Health  By Oeindrila Dube and Katherine Baicker, The New York Times, March 26, 2020
• The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed.  By Nicholas Kulish, Sarah Kliff and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times, March 29, 2020
• Testing Blunders Cost Vital Month in U.S. VIrus Fight  By Michael D. Shear, Abby Goodnough, Sheila Kaplan, Sheri Fink, Katie Thomas and Noah Weiland, The New York Times, March 29, 2020
• Price Gouging Complaints Surge Amid Coronavirus Pandemic  By Michael Levenson, The New York Times, March 27, 2020
• Key Economic Facts About COVID-19  by Michael Greenstone (editor), Becker Friedman Institute, March 27, 2020
• COVID-19 Policy Tracker  MultiState
• Simulating Covid-19: Part 1  by Paul Romer, March 23, 2020 [Also: Part 2 and Part 3]
• Coronavirus Info-Database  LessWrong
• HELP! (HEaLth and Pandemics) Econ Working Group 
• The U.S. Is About to Vastly Increase Its Debt. That’s a Good Thing.  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, March 27, 2020
• The Coronavirus Economy: When Washington Takes Over Business  By Jim Tankersley, Alan Rappeport, David Gelles, Peter Eavis and David Yaffe-Bellany, The New York Times, March 26, 2020
• After the Lockdown, Fear and Chaos in India  By Pragya Tiwari, The New York Times, March 25, 2020
• On Coronavirus, We’re #1  by Paul Krugman, The New York Times. March 27, 2020
• Can We Put a Price Tag on a Life? The Shutdown Forces a New Look  By Eduardo Porter and Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, March 24, 2020
• The Coronavirus Curve  Numberphile YouTube Channel, March 25, 2020
• Who Should Be Saved First? Experts Offer Ethical Guidance  By Austin Frakt, The New York Times, March 24, 2020
• Should older Americans die to save the economy? Ethicists call it a false choice.  By Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post, March 24, 2020
• What the Government Needs to Do Next  By James K. Galbraith, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Mar 23, 2020
• A Proposal for Social Insurance During the Pandemic By N. Gregory Mankiw, Greg Mankiw's Blog, March 23, 2020
  
• The U.S. Shut Down Its Economy. Here’s What Needs to Happen in Order to Restart.  By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, March 22, 2020
• The Virus Can Be Stopped, but Only With Harsh Steps, Experts Say  By Donald G. McNeil Jr., The New York Times, March 23, 2020
• We All Need Small Businesses. Don’t Let Them Die.  By Sendhil Mullainathan, The New York Times, March 19, 2020
• Just Use ‘the Computer’ to Give People More Money  By Stephanie Kelton, The New York Times, March 21, 2020
• Special Report: How Korea trounced U.S. in race to test people for coronavirus  by Chad Terhune, Dan Levine, Hyunjoo Jin, Jane Lanhee Lee, Reuters, March 18, 2020
• We know enough now to act decisively against Covid-19. Social distancing is a good place to start  By Marc Lipsitch, STAT, March 18, 2020
• The economic rationale for strong action now against Covid-19  By Mireille Jacobson and Tom Chang, STAT, March 18, 2020
• A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data  By John P.A. Ioannidis, STAT, March 17, 2020
• Plans for economic mitigation from the coronavirus by Tyler Cowen, downloaded on March 18, 2020
• Keeping Business Alive: The Government Will Pay by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, March 16, 2020
• Filling the Holes in Family and Business Budgets: Unemployment Benefits and Work Sharing in the Time of Pandemics by Arindrajit Dube, econfip (blog), March 2020
• Filling the Holes in Family and Business Budgets: Unemployment Benefits and Work Sharing in the Time of Pandemics by Arindrajit Dube, March 17, 2020
• The U.S. economy is in a tailspin—policymakers must do everything they can to protect workers and their families  by Claudia Sahm, Equitable Growth (blog), March 13, 2020
• How to Help American Businesses Endure and Jobs Survive  By Steven Hamilton and Stan Veuger, March 17, 2020 [Also available here.]
• How to Treat the Financial Symptoms of Covid-19  By John H. Cochrane, The Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2020
• Thoughts on the Pandemic by N. Gregory Mankiw, Greg Mankiw's Blog, March 13, 2020
• Possible Fiscal Policies for Rare, Unanticipated, and Severe Viral Outbreaks  by Bill Dupor, Economic Synopses, March 17, 2020
• Throwing a COVID-19 LIQUIDITY LIFE-LINE by Markus Brunnermeier, Jean-Pierre Landau, Marco Pagano and Ricardo Reis, 17 March 2020
• Macroeconomic Policy In The Time Of COVID-19 by Donald Marron, taxvox, March 17, 2020