Pandemic-economics blog

Pandemic-economics blog A blog by Commission staff to generate ideas and promote debate about policy responses to COVID‑19. We welcome robust, respectful and insightful thoughts and ideas. Comments can be posted at the bottom of blog posts, but please note they are moderated and won't appear immediately.

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I’d wear a CovidCard. The question is, should you?

4 August 2020

I’m OK with wearing a CovidCard. But are you? There’s no point me doing it alone.

CovidCard carrying Kiwis?

22 July 2020

New Zealand’s COVID Tracer app is “on track to achieve nothing”, according to Sam Morgan.

Is COVID-19 becoming less deadly?

15 July 2020

New COVID-19 cases are soaring in the US. I would naturally expect the number of deaths to be soarin…

The small numbers problem: distinguishing good luck from goo…

1 July 2020

Zero community transmission. Just a handful of active cases, all in quarantine. New Zealand is in an…

How will the pandemic end?

25 June 2020

Elimination. Border incursions. An outbreak. A lockdown, which takes us back to elimination.

Preparing for further outbreaks – have we got the right app?

11 June 2020

Alert level 1! Like you no doubt, I am breathing a sigh of relief. But no one can guarantee that New…

A mountaineer’s guide to policy headroom

23 April 2020

Over the last few weeks’, you might have felt like the country was making its way along a ridge betw…

How are we trackin’?

22 April 2020

Let me introduce you to RPE, a “quick & dirty” estimate of the effective reproduction number of COVI…

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