COVID–19 | Blavatnik School of Government

31 March 2023, 10:00 - 11:00

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What did COVID-19 teach us about preparing for mega-crises?

With ‘long emergencies’ likely to be an increasing feature of our modern world, what can governments learn from COVID-19 to prepare for future crises, whether health-related or not? This one-hour online event launched our report on the question.

Publication

16 February 2023

What would a data framework for policy responses to pandemic diseases look like?

This scoping paper discusses how information on government policy responses to pandemic diseases should be collected and analysed to build preparedness.

Thomas Hale Anna PetherickToby PhillipsKaitlyn GreenBernardo AndrettiRodrigo FurstClare WenhamBernardo Andretti di MeloNadezhda KamenkovichToby PhilipsWill TornessSandhya LapingHao ZhaRadhika Nagesh

Publication

14 December 2022

Indian state-level policy responses to COVID-19 during the second wave

This paper tracks the evolution of the Indian government policy response to the coronavirus pandemic using data from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker, collected for Indian sub-national jurisdictions.

Thomas Hale Anna PetherickToby PhillipsRadhika NageshManikantha NatarajHimangshu Kumar

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India

In the media

The Guardian

Fears of deadly infection surge as China abandons zero-Covid policy

Thomas Hale warns that if China relaxes measures before achieving significant immunity in the population, it could see an unsustainable surge in infections.

Thomas Hale

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China

Blog

15 November 2022

How one Chinese local government deals with the effect of COVID-19 policy on the economy: the case of Yibin

How has China, one of the countries with the strictest COVID-19 prevention policies, balanced pandemic prevention and control with economic development? The city of Yibin in Sichuan province provides an interesting example.

Yunliang Lei

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China

Publication

11 October 2022

Proposal for funding and co-ordination mechanisms to maximise benefit / minimise cost / minimise risk from donor investment in COVID-19 vaccine development

This policy brief, written in March 2020, argues finance (rather than development of new vaccine technology) was likely to be the binding constraint on the timing of broad and equitable global availability of COVID-19 vaccines.

Stefan Dercon Kate OrkinAlexander DouglasAdrian Hill

Health

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In the media

Grid

Millions of people under lockdown for 1,100 cases. When will China’s zero-covid policy end?

Thomas Hale says China's zero-covid lockdown strategy is unlikely to be sustainable.

Thomas Hale

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China

In the media

Nature

What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns

Article looks at the complexities of weighing up the ultimate costs and benefits of lockdown measures, and mentions Anna Petherick and the government response tracker.

Anna Petherick

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