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Lockdown or Quarantine: When Should Mandatory Isolation be Targeted?

2022-04-22

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To contain or slow the spread of infectious diseases, mandatory isolations are common policy measures that can be applied uniformly to the population (lockdown) or targeted at potential virus carriers (quarantine). It is generally suggested that quarantine is a superior substitute to lockdown. However, in this research we show that targeted isolation may yield unintended consequences, thanks to the strategic respo...

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Literature Corpus work: 77a93e3e-8b6d-51ea-8a59-576d338abb13
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4073865

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