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A Divide and Conquer Strategy against the Covid-19 Pandemic?!

2020-05-09 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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The concern about (socio-)economic consequences of collective lockdowns in the Covid-19 pandemic calls for alternative strategies. We consider a divide and conquer strategy in which a high risk group (HRG) is put on strict isolation, whereas the remainder of the population is exposed to the virus, building up immunity against Covid-19. The question is whether this strategy may suppress the effective reproduction number below the critical value of [Formula] without further lockdown once the HRG i...

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