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Effect of Universal TB Vaccination and Other Policy-Relevant Factors on the Probability of Patient Death from COVID-19

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  • Amos Golan

    (American University and Santa Fe Institute)

  • Tinatin Mumladze
  • Danielle Wilson
  • Elissa Cohen
  • Troy McGuinness
  • William Mooney
  • Jisung Moon

Abstract

The possibility of reoccurring waves of the novel coronavirus that triggered the 2020 pandemic makes it critical to identify underlying policy-relevant factors that could be leveraged to decrease future COVID-19 death rates. We examined variation in a number of underlying, policy- relevant, country-level factors and COVID-19 death rates across countries. We found three such factors that significantly impact the survival probability of patients infected with COVID-19. In order of impact, these are universal TB (BCG) vaccination, air pollination deaths, and a health-related expenditure. We quantify each probability change by age and sex. To deal with small sample size and high correlations, we use an information-theoretic inferential method that also allows us to introduce priors constructed from independent SARS data.

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  • Amos Golan & Tinatin Mumladze & Danielle Wilson & Elissa Cohen & Troy McGuinness & William Mooney & Jisung Moon, 2020. "Effect of Universal TB Vaccination and Other Policy-Relevant Factors on the Probability of Patient Death from COVID-19," Working Papers 2020-041, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
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    1. Golan, Amos & Mumladze, Tinatin & Perloff, Jeffrey M. & Wilson, Danielle, 2023. "An Information-Theoretic Method for Identifying Effective Treatments and Policies at the Beginning of a Pandemic," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt8rj4m887, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.

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    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design

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