IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ucn/wpaper/202022.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

On Plague and Ebola in a Time of COVID-19

Author

Listed:
  • Cormac Ó Gráda

Abstract

The global COVID-19 pandemic recalls the Ebola epidemic of 2014-15 and earlier much more lethal plague epidemics. All share several characteristics, even though the second and third plague epidemics dwarfed the both the 2014-15 Ebola outbreak and COVID-19 in terms of mortality. This essay reviews the mortality due to Ebola and plague and their lethality; the spatial and socioeconomic dimensions of plague mortality; the role of public action in containing the two diseases; and their economic impact.

Suggested Citation

  • Cormac Ó Gráda, 2020. "On Plague and Ebola in a Time of COVID-19," Working Papers 202022, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucn:wpaper:202022
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10197/11489
    File Function: First version, 2020
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    RePEc Biblio mentions

    As found on the RePEc Biblio, the curated bibliography for Economics:
    1. > Economics of Welfare > Health Economics > Economics of Pandemics > Specific pandemics

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Plague; Mortality; Health; Economic history; COVID-19; Coronavirus;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
    • N - Economic History

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ucn:wpaper:202022. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Nicolas Clifton (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/educdie.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.