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November 27, 2024, Paper: "The spring of 2020 will long be remembered for the loss of life and widespread economic disruption due to Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Yet something constructive came out of those awful months: Many economists discovered infectious-disease epidemiology. The volume of new work was so great that Covid Economics, an online journal of the Centre for Economic Policy Research launched in April 2020, published 12 issues in May alone. Avinash Dixit, a renowned economic theorist, wittily remarked, “If any pandemic spread faster than Covid-19, it is that of research about Covid-19”"