Several countries have implemented lockdowns to control their COVID-19 epidemic. However, questions like “where” and “when” still require answers. We assessed the impact of national and regional lockdowns considering the French first epidemic wave of COVID-19 as a case study. In a regional lockdown scenario aimed at preventing intensive care units ...
Published in Review of economic dynamics
This paper studies the equilibrium and the social optimum in an economy where knowledge diffusion interacts with disease transmission. Knowledge increases productivity and is diffused through learning. A learner chooses the intensities in normal learning, isolated learning and production. Normal learning is more effective than isolated learning but...
Published in Annals of the rheumatic diseases
Published in Annals of the rheumatic diseases
Published in The Medico-legal journal
Vaccine hesitancy and anti-vax movements are increasing globally. Covid-19 pandemic has caused and causes emergency situations where available resources do not always meet the need for community care.In this article, the authors analyse the bioethical and medico-legal implications of the possibility - in conditions of scarcity of resources - of sel...
Published in Acta odontologica Scandinavica
To investigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the patient flow and economy as experienced by dental practices in Denmark. A survey regarding experience of patient flow, economical turnover, financial strain and willingness to pay for large treatments during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic (March 2020 to March 2021), along with infor...
Most countries deployed their military in some capacity to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. We present original data on early pandemic-related deployments, identifying seven types of deployment: logistic operations, enforcement, international involvement, border protection, information provision, intelligence operations, and domestic protection. We fi...
Published in Annals of the rheumatic diseases
Published in Medicine, health care, and philosophy
Age-based rationing remains highly controversial. This question has been paramount during the Covid-19 pandemic. Analyzing the practices, proposals, and guidelines applied or put forward during the current pandemic, three kinds of age-based rationing are identified: an age-based cut-off, age as a tiebreaker, and indirect age rationing, where age ma...
Published in Annales medico-psychologiques
COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences have put into great difficulty health professionals, and the general population, fostering the emergence of various psychological and psychiatric disorders. Medical and psychological emergency units' mission is the medical and psychological emergency care of people impacted during a traumatic event. Given thei...
