Economic cost of social distancing

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A web based game to simulate virus outbreaks

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Open AdrianListon opened 4 years ago

AdrianListon commented 4 years ago

So hard to calculate, but could we use a cost of 200000000 per day?

This is based on the assumption that social distancing would cost the economy 5% of GDP. Seems fairly conservative.

s-andrews commented 4 years ago

Yes, we should be able to add that into the calculation, so that's 200M per day if distancing is turned on in addition to the existing costs.