@julianreif
Associate Professor of Finance and Economics, University of Illinois. Research interests include health policy and empirical methods.
www.julianreif.comCovid death comparisons: out of 106 countries, "the 12 hardest hit were in Eastern Europe... the two most brutal pandemics in the world were in Serbia and Bulgaria, each with populations under seven million. The third-worst pandemic was in Russia"
9 Pandemic Narratives We’re Getting Wrong
We’re replacing pandemic narratives of enormous complexity with just-so stories.
nytimes.com
"This approach could be successfully replicated by Twitter itself. Twitter could allow people to create totally unmoderated, unregulated Twitter clones that don’t converse at all with Twitter itself."
How to fix Twitter
Will a new CEO do better than Dorsey?
noahpinion.substack.com
My Covid op-ed is out today in STAT news. "The early campaigns to urge younger people to get vaccinated stressed how doing so would protect others, but our evidence makes clear that — even for younger, healthier groups — the life-years you save by getting vaccinated could be your own."
The hidden cost of Covid-19: years of life lost among the young - STAT
Pandemic-related deaths are most common among old and vulnerable individuals. But years of life lost reveals its impact on the young.
statnews.com
