Sitemap - 2020 - Joshua Gans' Newsletter

Holiday viewing recommendation: the Bee Gees

Covid-19 Disruption Experiments

Big News! The Rapid Screen Pilots have arrived

Worry Diary

To pay or be paid?

Revisiting the number of doses

Uncomfortable vaccine decisions

Missing infectiousness information for vaccines

Looking for Covid-19 in other places

Zoom games

The Christmas bubble

Contact tracing works!

Scaling ain't cheap or easy

Economists "versus" epidemiologists

Humans and the perils of Covid-Zero

The Slovakian model

How many vaccine doses do you need?

A little window on the pandemic

How many people need to be vaccinated?

Will work from home stick?

Preparing for an imminent vaccine

Book excerpt: Telling the Truth

Time to adjust your assessment

So you want to achieve herd immunity

Pre-emptive warnings to take care

Can we trust self-administered tests?

Social distancing at the end

Largely out of government control

We can do better on pre-risk assessment

Testing at the door versus testing at the desk

If only we knew the viral load

Data Week: How to collect data

Data Week: How to collate data

Data Week: How to manage your data

Validation of the value of rapid tests

What does an infection tell us about others?

Complacency

Some good reads on Covid-19

Bringing local outbreaks under control

Are temperature checks a good screen?

We actually did remarkably well

When did we know enough to act?

What have we learned about the coronavirus?

Vaccine Week: A final worry

Vaccine Week: Will it be good enough?

Vaccine Week: How fast can it be distributed?

Things left lying around

How often should you test?

Job performance and parental leave in Covid-19

Special Post on the New Australian Lockdown

Managing your Contact Budget

Covid-19 and Leisure at Scale

Why the best isn't best

New Fast Tests and Distress from Regulators

The Promise of Wearables

Bonus: Some Good School News

The Covid-19 Grading Mess

Test Week: Let's talk about Sewage

Test Week: On the Rebound

Test Week: Scale and Speed

Test Week: Finding the Right Fit

Test Week: The Information Gap

Whither paper?

The Reopening Party

Why R tends towards 1

Using rotation to manage school contagion

How's Work From Home going?

Covid-19 and 'Forced' Experimentation

Assigning blame for Covid

Together by a tether

Cities and Covid Reopening

Mostly Covid-19 and Economics

That DisneyWorld Reopening: An Opportunity Lost

Will a COVID-19 vaccine exacerbate the economic downturn?

Hey Apple! Apple’s App Store Controversies

The Coming Big Rationing

What if it’s worse?

Smell Test Now

Health Before Wealth: The Economic Logic

A War Footing: Surfing the Curve