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Samuel Webster
Publications - 4
Citations - 2702
Samuel Webster is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Government & Public policy. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 947 citations.
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A global panel database of pandemic policies (Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker).
Thomas Hale,Noam Angrist,Rafael Goldszmidt,Beatriz Kira,Anna Petherick,Toby Phillips,Samuel Webster,Emily Cameron-Blake,Laura Hallas,Saptarshi Majumdar,Helen Tatlow +10 more
TL;DR: The COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) as mentioned in this paper is a dataset that addresses the need for continuously updated, readily usable and comparable information on policy measures.
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Global Assessment of the Relationship between Government Response Measures and COVID-19 Deaths
Thomas Hale,Andrew J. Hale,Beatriz Kira,Anna Petherick,Toby Phillips,Devi Sridhar,Robin N Thompson,Samuel Webster,Noam Angrist +8 more
TL;DR: A lower degree of government stringency and slower response times were associated with more deaths from COVID-19, highlighting the importance of non-pharmaceutical responses to CO VID-19 as more robust testing, treatment, and vaccination measures are developed.
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Government responses and COVID-19 deaths: Global evidence across multiple pandemic waves.
Thomas Hale,Noam Angrist,Andrew J. Hale,Beatriz Kira,Saptarshi Majumdar,Anna Petherick,Toby Phillips,Devi Sridhar,Robin N Thompson,Samuel Webster,Yuxi Zhang +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an assessment of the impact of government closure and containment measures on deaths from COVID-19 across sequential waves of the pandemic globally, where daily data was collected on a range of containment and closure policies for 186 countries from January 1, 2020 until March 11, 2021.