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自2020年底以来，我将研究重点从货币政策转移到COVID-19研究和政策分析，使用了多种方法，其中一种方法在Fujii和Nakata（2021）中有所描述。我建立了一个由大约20名研究助理组成的团队，研究了从感染预测到自杀等与COVID-19相关的广泛主题。大多数分析最初都是为非技术读者用日语编写的。最近，我一直在将这些原始报告转换成英文学术论文(Chiba et al. (2022), Beppu et al. (2022), Fujii et al. （2022), Batista et al.(2022)）。我在政府官方会议上发表了许多分析，包括但不限于东京都新型冠状病毒监测会议、东京奥运会和残奥会组委会专家圆桌会议、新型冠状病毒疾病控制小组委员会、基本行动政策咨询委员会、厚生劳动省COVID-19咨询委员会和部长会议等。在更非正式的场合，我们向2019冠状病毒病和其他新发传染病控制办公室（内阁秘书处）和总理办公室等提供了我们的分析。

Since the end of 2020, I have shifted my research focus from monetary policy to COVID-19 research and policy analysis, using a variety of approaches one of which is described in Fujii and Nakata (2021).Building a team of about 20 research assistants, I have worked on a wide range of topics related to COVID-19 from infection prediction to suicides. Most of the analyses were originally written in Japanese for non-technical audience. Recently, I have been converting these original reports into academic papers written in English (Chiba et al. (2022), Beppu et al. (2022), Fujii et al. (2022), Batista et al. (2022)).I presented many of my analyses at official government meetings, including, but not limited to Tokyo Metropolitan New Coronavirus Monitoring Conference, Expert Round-table Meeting of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Subcommittee on Novel Coronavirus Disease Control, and the Advisory Committee on the Basic Action Policy, Advisory Board on COVID-19 of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, and Council of Ministers, among others. In more informal settings, we have provided our analyses to the Office for COVID-19 and Other Emerging Infectious Disease Control (Cabinet Secretariat) and Prime Minister’s Office, among others.