Stefan Pollinger

Assistant Professor, Sciences Po @ScPoEcon

[Stefan Pollinger @StefanPollinger]

@FlorianOswald @EJ_RES @ScPoEcon @OUPEconomics @RoyalEconSoc Thank you Florian!

[Stefan Pollinger @StefanPollinger]

10/ @dorn_florian, @IlonaKickbusch, @devisridhar, @JVLazarus, @SJVanders, @FacundoPiguill1, @liyan_shi, @LukaszRachel, and many others too numerous to list here. A thousand thanks to all of you! #EconTwitter

[Stefan Pollinger @StefanPollinger]

1/ How should we use social distancing and contact tracing in response to a rapidly spreading and deadly infectious disease? I am excited to announce that my paper on this topic is now forthcoming in the @EJ_RES: https://t.co/M4zFCNyWwW. Here's a summary of the main findings:

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[Stefan Pollinger @StefanPollinger]

@APeichl Thank you for tweeting @APeichl! Additional point: To reopen, we need to push cases low enough such that contact tracing and not social distancing controls the spread. The more efficient tracing, the sooner that happens. Reopening before leads to a counterproductive next wave!

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@A_Ferey @LMU_Muenchen @APeichl @Dominik__Sachs @pierrecboyer @jbmichau @DTaubinsky Congratulations Antoine! ;-)

[Stefan Pollinger @StefanPollinger]

Very good thread on the situation in France!

[JohannesBorgen @jeuasommenulle]

Last Friday, Macron floated the idea of a new general lockdown in France. Ouch. And because I’m fed up with reading so much garbage and contradictory stuff on Covid, I decided to have a hard look at the French data. A (long but important) thread.

[Stefan Pollinger @StefanPollinger]

@AdamJKucharski Exactly! Economically, it is even worse than that. Every day you let infections grow increases the social distancing costs to get back to a level where contact tracing can control the disease. More info on how economics and epidemiology interact here: https://t.co/3mbLi9kSaA

[Stefan Pollinger @StefanPollinger]

The situation in Belgium is so grim that one of the leading epidemiologists of the country is crying out for help on social media. If you live in a distressed area, please limit your social contacts as much as you can. Also, please use your contact tracing app. Courage!

[Marius Gilbert - @mariusgilbert.bsky.social @mariusgilbert]

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[Stefan Pollinger @StefanPollinger]

apps are only effective if most people use them! Tracing alone will not end the current wave. There are already too many cases, and we are already out of testing capacity. However, tracing could at least prevent the third wave. Suppressing the virus saves lives and the economy!

[Stefan Pollinger @StefanPollinger]

The efficient use of digital contact tracing after the first lockdown would have prevented the current second wave.
In this article, I tried to explain why: https://t.co/3mbLi9kSaA. If you live in France, please use the new contact tracing app: https://t.co/YipRduZ7aV. These

[Tony Yates @t0nyyates]

Do you work in government and follow me? Maybe ask someone whether they are considering this idea:
https://t.co/f7iCLm7eqn
and, if not, why not. It could help get a better outcome in this crisis, by laying it out more clearly that suppressing the virus won't 'cost' anything.