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Efficient Social Distancing for COVID-19: An Integration of Economic Health and Public Health

2020-12-07

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Social distancing has been the only effective way to contain the spread of an infectious disease prior to the availability of the pharmaceutical treatment. It can lower the infection rate of the disease at the economic cost. A pandemic crisis like COVID-19, however, has posed a dilemma to the policymakers since a long-term restrictive social distancing or even lockdown will keep economic cost rising. This paper in...

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Literature Corpus work: 4bef6507-69e8-5ca4-853e-274b1c868544
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3742507

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