Timing matters: the impact of response measures on COVID-19-related hospitalization and death rates in Germany and Switzerland

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Table 5 OLS estimates for Switzerland and LI 44 days after the start of the canton-specific epidemic with fatalities per 10,000 inhabitants as outcome variable

	Estimate	Standard error
Intercept	39.2105	45.0916
Intermediate timing	0.7961	0.7712
Late timing	1.7187	0.6681
Share of population aged 65+	−337.2691	362.2737
Squared share of population aged 65+	848.3766	950.0775
Population: 0–59,999	−0.5647	1.1326
Population density	4e −04	4e −04
Income per capita	0	0
Median age of confirmed infections prior to lockdown	−0.2783	1.308
Squared median age of confirmed infections	0.003	0.0131
Initial growth trend for confirmed cases in log points	6.3784	8.0649
Confirmed infections per 10,000 inhabitants on epidemic day 4	0.0172	0.6938
Ban on visits to retirement homes	0.153	0.4966