Modelling the economic impact of COVID19 under different policy choices: Mitigation versus suppression when time is a scarce resource

Keogh-Brown et al.(2020) illustrate the application of economic modelling to inform and guide policy making during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. The methodology is based on linking a general equilibrium economic model to a simple epidemiological model of the infection. In this commentary a number...

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Main Author: Stephen Birch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827320303049