Covid and social distancing with a heterogenous population
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DOI: 10.1007/s00199-021-01377-2
Abstract: Motivated by the Covid-19 epidemic, we build a SIR model with private decisions on social distancing and population heterogeneity in terms of infection-induced fatality rates, and calibrate it to UK data to understand the quantitative… read more here.
Keywords: covid social; welfare gains; policies shut; social distancing ... See more keywords