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Optimal intervention strategies for a new pandemic: The case of Covid-19

2024-12-05 health economics Title + abstract only
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We present an age-stratified SEIR-type model of the Norwegian population, which is extended to include the effects of broad types of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) like general lockdown-policies, contact tracing and quarantine and border control. The model can be used to explore the spread of a new virus with given virulence and transmissibility, and to assess the main costs of the disease and the NPIs in terms of lost health and welfare as well as economic losses. We define the optimal...

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