Kendall Hoyt

Aug 16, 2024 | nber.org | Kendall Hoyt |Christopher Snyder |Alec Stapp

The authors are grateful to Robert Kadlec for an interview that provided inside information filling out our understanding of Operation Warp Speed, to Fatma Ceren Dolay for excellent research assistance, to Santi Ruiz for ably editing and streamlining our prose, and to Heidi Williams and conference participants at the May 2024 NBER Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Economy workshop for helpful comments. The editor, Ben Jones, provided extensive advice that substantially improved the paper.

May 11, 2023 | fortune.com | Kendall Hoyt

The White House has announced the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency and is disbanding its COVID response team. As we officially move on as a nation, there are lessons to be learned from the pandemic, and 33 of my peers and I lay out many of them in our new comprehensive report, Lessons from the Covid War. This group convened two years ago in the hopes of laying the foundation for a National Covid Commission. With no official inquiry in sight, we decided to publish our findings.