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The health economic implications of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
- Describe the COVID-19 pandemic and who has it impacted?
- Based on all the topics already discussed in class (supply-demand, market failure, rationing, etc), choose TWO of them and discuss the health economic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic as it pertains to those topics?
- In the past few years, China has experienced numerous public health crises caused by disease outbreaks including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes (SARS) in 2003 and Influenza A Virus Subtype H7N9 (H7N9) in 2013. Epidemics such as SARS and H7N9 have caused huge negative impacts on population health and the economy.
- What are the similarities and differences between those epidemics and the COVID-19 pandemic?
- What key learnings were established from these outbreaks that can inform an effective solution to the current COVID-19 pandemic?