SARS-CoV-2 aerosol transmission indoors: a closer look at viral load, infectivity, the effectiveness of preventive measures and a simple approach for practical …

M Kriegel, A Hartmann, U Buchholz, J Seifried… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
There is uncertainty about the viral loads of infectious individuals required to transmit COVID-
19 via aerosol. In addition, there is a lack of both quantification of the influencing parameters …

Compensating differentials for occupational health and safety risks: Implications of recent evidence

TJ Kniesner, WK Viscusi - 50Th celebratory volume, 2023 - emerald.com
The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their
health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the …

Endogenous viral mutations, evolutionary selection, and containment policy design

P Mellacher - Journal of economic interaction and coordination, 2022 - Springer
How will the novel coronavirus evolve? I study a simple epidemiological model, in which
mutations may change the properties of the virus and its associated disease stochastically …

Point-of-Care COVID-19 Antigen Testing in Exposed German Healthcare Workers—A Cost Model

R Diel, N Hittel, A Nienhaus - International Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: Hospital staffing shortages are again (mid-year 2021) becoming a significant
problem as the number of positive COVID-19 cases continues to increase worldwide …

Free PoC testing for SARS-CoV-2 in Germany: factors expanding access to various communities in a medium-sized city

AK Witte, J Grosch, B Conrady, L Schomakers… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
During the third wave of the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic in Germany,
free SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) point-of-care (PoC) …

The effectiveness of vaccination, testing, and lockdown strategies against COVID-19

M Fritz, T Gries, M Redlin - International Journal of Health Economics and …, 2023 - Springer
The ability of various policy activities to reduce the reproduction rate of the COVID-19
disease is widely discussed. Using a stringency index that comprises a variety of lockdown …

Schools under mandatory testing can mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is far from over yet. More than one and a half years after its
global onset in early 2020, the spread of the novel coronavirus continues to cause large …

Compensating Differentials for Occupational Health and Safety Risks: Implications of Recend Evidence

WK Viscusi, TJ Kniesner - Research in …, 2023 - scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu
The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their
health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the …

Pro-Trump Partisanship and COVID-19 Mortality: A Model-Based Counterfactual Analysis

D Liebl, U Schüwer - Available at SSRN 3924620, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
We show that a higher share of Trump voters (who are less likely to comply with COVID-19
public health guidelines than Democratic voters) in a US county leads to significantly more …

Der eindämmende Effekt von Schulen auf die Verbreitung von SARS-CoV-2

Schulen tragen nicht zu den im Moment steigenden Corona-Fallzahlen bei. Das
Wiederöffnen der Schulen nach den deutschen Sommerferien trug vermutlich sogar dazu …