Thinking about the current COVID-19 pandemic and what policies we should ask governments to pursue is not a simple problem. It involves lots of big numbers and trade-offs over time. These are things that we are not instinctively good at.

Stability issues of RT‐PCR testing of SARS‐CoV‐2 for hospitalized patients clinically diagnosed with COVID‐19

False negative results from the standard test for COVID-19 mean that more people probably have the virus than might be expected. This would mean that a smaller proportion of the total is …

Sweden has not opted for a strict lockdown yet their curve looks flatter and deaths per million are about half the UK's

Here is a comparison of news headlines from the past week in 2020 and the headlines from a time in 2018 when mortality rates were peaking due to a bad flu season.

Make up your own mind. Do the headlines reflect the gravity of the situations in an equivalent way …

From: TheBlogMire

The situation may well change as the days and weeks go by, but so far,

According to the official data from both countries, the approach taken in the UK of keeping people in their homes and closing down huge swathes of the economy, has not had any more …

Government concerned that tens of thousands of Britons may die prematurely from the worst recession in history - more than will die from the virus

• Forecasts suggest economy may slump by more than 14 percent in the next three months sparking concerns that tens of thousands of Britons may die prematurely …

Lockdown is likely to have major economic implications that in the future may harm healthcare due to lack of resources. This may eventually cause even more deaths and suffering than the COVID-19 pandemic will bring in the near term

• Sweden has adopted a relatively relaxed strategy, seemingly assuming that overreaction …

"Workers and businesses are facing catastrophe, in both developed and developing economies," said Guy Ryder director general of the International Labour Organization (ILO), an agency of the United Nations.

The outbreak is expected to wipe out 6.7% of working hours across the world during the second quarter of 2020 …

Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News forced to shut up shop after 150 years of reporting

This is just the tip of the iceberg as other local newspapers especially continue to feel the pinch.

This weekly media monitor ‘Enders Analysis’ stated that this is a long-term problem that will not go …

Concerns have been raised by a senior official in the NHS that children with illnesses unrelated to Covid-19 are going to hospital too late and coming to harm as a result, a leaked email seen by BBC Newsnight says.

• A&E attendance numbers in England were down 29% from the …