Hello Nicolas, glad to read from you after more than twenty years. Thank you for this newsletter which is spot on for me as I am leading the crisis response for a small but global industrial organization (sarted in February with Asia and Italy...). In this issue I do really appreciate your analysis on why the situation is improving in the Southern US. I would have hoped that with their great culture about natural disasters (I was there during Katrina) they would have shifted to operational crisis mode much sooner. I am now seeing in Texas and Alabama what you saw in Arizona. Now one aspect worries me a lot: the shift from national or state wide responses (especially in European countries) to local situations and local decisions by local authorities. This adds a lot of complexity and the European landscape is turning into the 30 years war: many local fronts, many sudden turns of situations, decisions made on local or political aspects... What would be the best tool to monitor all twists and turns of the local decisions, from Antwerp to a Spanish province? Thank you again, Olivier GdeL.
Hello Nicolas, glad to read from you after more than twenty years. Thank you for this newsletter which is spot on for me as I am leading the crisis response for a small but global industrial organization (sarted in February with Asia and Italy...). In this issue I do really appreciate your analysis on why the situation is improving in the Southern US. I would have hoped that with their great culture about natural disasters (I was there during Katrina) they would have shifted to operational crisis mode much sooner. I am now seeing in Texas and Alabama what you saw in Arizona. Now one aspect worries me a lot: the shift from national or state wide responses (especially in European countries) to local situations and local decisions by local authorities. This adds a lot of complexity and the European landscape is turning into the 30 years war: many local fronts, many sudden turns of situations, decisions made on local or political aspects... What would be the best tool to monitor all twists and turns of the local decisions, from Antwerp to a Spanish province? Thank you again, Olivier GdeL.
I agree. The benefit of having decentralisation of decision (with relevant) data provides the ability to test different policy regimes and their outcome, and faster learning about what works or not. The ECDC provides a repository of all the data for EU states here: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/sources-eueea-and-uk-regional-data-covid-19