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Optimizing Disease Containment Measures during a Pandemic

2021-03-05

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Throughout the current COVID-19 pandemic, governments have implemented a variety of containment measures, ranging from hoping for herd immunity (which is essentially no containment) to mandating complete lockdown. On one hand, containment measures limit the spread of the disease, controlling the load on the healthcare system and reducing lives lost. On the other, such measures drag down economic activity, leading...

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Literature Corpus work: 81b5b3c6-f5a4-524d-a6ae-5bf8be692371
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3795643

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