Six months into the COVID-19 crisis, we bite our regularly washed fingernails waiting for a vaccine, but for now, behavioural interventions are the only medicine. How do we find out which intervention...
This blog post was originally published on https://fabiandablander.com/r/Corona-Party.html. There is no doubt that, every now and then, one ought to celebrate life. This usually involves people coming...
Prediction is hard, especially about the future. While mathematical models by no means guarantee accurate predictions, they at least formalize the process through which one arrives at them. This allow...
In my last blogpost, I discussed the importance of as well as the rocky road leading towards Open Science during the corona crisis. To the disappointment of many scientists, almost no data about the c...
Many aspects of life require that humans are in physical contact with other humans. We can think of people as nodes in a network and contact between them as defining the edges of the network. Unsurpri...
The novel coronavirus has a firm grip on nearly all countries across the world, and there is large heterogeneity in how countries have responded to the threat. Some countries, such as Brazil and the U...
In April, the Dutch government announced its intention to develop a corona-app that could be used in contact tracing. Other countries like China (Vervaeke, 2020), Australia, Singapore, the United King...
The COVID-19 pandemic will end only when a sufficient number of people have become immune, thus preventing future outbreaks. Principally, so-called exit strategies differ on whether immunity...
Open Science is a movement which aims to make scientific research transparent and accessible to all levels of society (Woelfle, Olliaro & Todd, 2011). Open Science has different goals, such as mak...
This blog post was written by Dewi Jager, part of the Exit Strategy Bulletin team. During uncertain times, we tend to look to others for information. In these Corona days, it might be useful to ...
