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Stefan Pollinger

@StefanPollinger

Assistant Professor, Sciences Po @ScPoEcon

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Joined April 2020
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1/ How should we use social distancing and contact tracing in response to a rapidly spreading and deadly infectious disease? I am excited to announce that my paper on this topic is now forthcoming in the @EJ_RES: bit.ly/40y9O76. Here's a summary of the main findings:
Optimal Contact Tracing and Social Distancing Policies to Suppress A New Infectious Disease

Optimal Contact Tracing and Social Distancing Policies to Suppress A New Infectious Disease

Abstract. This paper studies the suppression of an infectious disease in the canonical susceptible-infectious-recovered model. It derives three results. Fi

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Very good thread on the situation in France!
JohannesBorgen (@jeuasommenulle) profile pictureJohannesBorgen@jeuasommenulle26 Oct 2020
Last Friday, Macron floated the idea of a new general lockdown in France. Ouch. And because I’m fed up with reading so much garbage and contradictory stuff on Covid, I decided to have a hard look at the French data. A (long but important) thread.
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The situation in Belgium is so grim that one of the leading epidemiologists of the country is crying out for help on social media. If you live in a distressed area, please limit your social contacts as much as you can. Also, please use your contact tracing app. Courage!
Marius Gilbert - @mariusgilbert.bsky.social (@mariusgilbert) profile pictureMarius Gilbert - @mariusgilbert.bsky.social@mariusgilbert23 Oct 2020
Vous, qui avez 100, 1000, 10.000, 100.000 followers sur FB, Insta ou par ici. Vous qui voyez du monde tous les jours, sur le terrain, aidez-nous, aidez-vous ! Il est #minuitmoinsune votre influence peut sauver des vies, nos hôpitaux sont au bord du gouffre. #stopcorona
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Daniel Ershov@ershov_daniel26 Oct 2020
1/17 Check out @TSEinfo's great job market candidates this year! Brief post on each one in ~reverse alphabetical order... take a look and share! tse-fr.eu/job-market-candida…
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The efficient use of digital contact tracing after the first lockdown would have prevented the current second wave. In this article, I tried to explain why: voxeu.org/article/suppressin…. If you live in France, please use the new contact tracing app: gouvernement.fr/info-coronav…. These
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apps are only effective if most people use them! Tracing alone will not end the current wave. There are already too many cases, and we are already out of testing capacity. However, tracing could at least prevent the third wave. Suppressing the virus saves lives and the economy!
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Tony Yates@t0nyyates24 Oct 2020
Do you work in government and follow me? Maybe ask someone whether they are considering this idea: theguardian.com/commentisfre… and, if not, why not. It could help get a better outcome in this crisis, by laying it out more clearly that suppressing the virus won't 'cost' anything.

Without joined-up thinking about Covid and the economy, Britain is just guessing | Tony Yates

Policy could be fine-tuned for different groups, such as young people, says former economics professor Tony Yates

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Adam Kucharski
@adamjkucharski8 Sep 2020
Useful illustration of how a rise in SARS-CoV-2 positivity in younger groups can soon become a rise in older groups.
Vincent Glad (@vincentglad) profile pictureVincent Glad@vincentglad8 Sep 2020
Replying to @vincentglad @adamjkucharski @chrisbaraniuk
Positivity rate by age, in the Marseille region.
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Many thanks to @voxeu for publishing my article.
VoxEU (@voxeu) profile pictureVoxEU
@voxeu6 Aug 2020
“Eradicating #Covid19 is possible through a combination of case detection & social distancing, which would allow the pandemic to be eliminated at low additional economic & health costs”, says Stefan Pollinger @StefanPollinger #CovidEconomics #EconTwitter bit.ly/3e0HSzZ
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