: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza, and COVID-19. Although major epidemics and pandemics can take an enormous …

result, weather conditions favouring pneumonia occurrence - suddenly warmer weather during cold seasons - can increase due to … to adverse effects on peoples' health (Sohn et al., 2019). Community-acquired pneumonia, in the following simply called … pneumonia, is one of the most common causes of death worldwide (Aliberti et al., 2021). At the same time, clear linkages between …

We exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937 to identify the impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on later … disability rates. These improvements were larger for those born in states with higher pre-intervention pneumonia mortality rates … exhibit larger absolute reductions in pneumonia mortality after the arrival of sulfa, we suggest that the absence of …

Recently, a novel coronavirus pneumonia (2019-nCoV) outbreak occurred in Wuhan, China, rapidly spreading first to the …

We exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937 to identify the causal impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on … pneumonia as these were the areas that benefited most from the availability of sulfa drugs. These estimates are, in general … our finding that African Americans experienced larger absolute reductions in pneumonia mortality after the arrival of …

using the diagnosis of viral pneumonia, e.g., Covid-19, as an illustrative example. By these means, the paper also …