The Brief – April 2020

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ChainLink Brief-COVID-19 Impact on Supply Chains, Home Delivery, and How to Save the Economy

Best practices, technology, and new takes on critical business topics from ChainLink Research

Friday, April 03, 2020 – Published once each month.

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted supply chains to a degree not seen for nearly a century or perhaps ever in modern times. As bad as things are, this is only the beginning. We explore the very different issues that different sectors are facing, how they are meeting those challenges in very different ways, and some early lessons learned. [ Read: The Coronavirus Pandemic’s Impact on Different Sectors and Their Supply Chains ]


Home Delivery in the Spot Light

Friday, April 03, 2020

The current world crisis highlights the good and the not so good of home delivery practices. [ Read: Home Delivery in the Spot Light ]


Can We Minimize Coronavirus Deaths Without Destroying the Economy?

Friday, April 03, 2020

Ongoing debates on what to do about the COVID-19 pandemic focus on the tradeoff between the economic pain of extreme suppression measurements vs. the societal/health consequences of not doing enough. Here we look at the “Hammer and the Dance”; a proposed approach to limiting the peak infection and death rates, while simultaneously limiting the economic and social costs to society. [ Read: The Coronavirus Pandemic’s Impact on Different Sectors and Their Supply Chains ]

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