adjust daily COVID-19 deaths to match weekly excess mortality. Focusing on Sweden, the only country that has good data and … did not impose a lockdown, we construct counterfactuals for what would have happened if it had imposed a lockdown, using a …, we find that a lockdown would have had sizable effects already after a week. The 3–4 weeks delay highlighted in previous …

effect is to reduce GDP and infections by forcing people to work from home. A premature lifting of the lock-down raises GDP … less productive, driven by the fear of infection. A longer lock-down eventually mitigates the GDP loss as well as attens … aggressive testing and tracking more effectively reduce infections and disrupt the economy less than a blanket lock-down. Finally …

collect a unique dataset of 200,000 newspaper articles about the Covid-19 pandemic from Sweden - one of the few countries that …

. Calibrating the model to the US Covid-19 pandemic reveals an 80% reduction in death toll due to voluntary actions and the lockdown … implemented in the United States. The optimal lockdown, however, is more stringent than what was implemented in the United States … underscore the importance of testing, showing its impact on reduced deaths, lower economic costs and laxer lockdown. We use the …