Allowing low-risk sectors to reopen with younger workers could be an optimal strategy for reopening the economy while limiting deaths, a study suggests Economic losses and covid-19 deaths could both be limited optimally if governments consider a mixed post-lockdown strategy of reopening low-risk sectors with younger workers, a study suggests.
Such a mixed policy could be of more help in balancing the economic and health tradeoffs rather than going for extreme measures, economist Carlo Faveroz and others say in a paper published in SSRN journal.
The authors evaluate the tradeoffs for five strategies, ranging from a 25 percent GDP loss but the fewest deaths in case of a yearlong full lockdown, to a zero GDP loss but the most deaths if the