Two attempts to explain outcomes in the current pandemic, one is from public administration, the other from public health. 1/4
The first is an an attempt to explain crude death rates using testing as a surrogate for policy action. Very quantitative, very incremental, very public health. Conclusion: testing helps reduce rates of death. 2/4 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350620303760
Second is a public adm. attempt to explain why some countries are more 'successful' than other in controlling the pandemic. Conclusion: success is of a mix of state-centric/institutional factors & contextual factors such as age structure, culture. 3/4 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23276665.2020.1784769
Neither is compelling. But: (1) these are examples of what will soon be an avalanche of efforts to explain pandemic outcomes; 2) written in parallel when, ideally, #publichealth & #politicalscience would learn from one another. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350620302997?via%3Dihub 4/4