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Gabriel Leung: Lockdown can’t last forever. Here’s how to lift it.
epidemiologist and dean of medicine at the University of Hong Kong, wrote in The New York Times on April 6.
He explained the “suppress and lift” strategy and the three-way tug of war between combating the disease, protecting the economy and ensuring the normal functioning of society. He proposed a formal framework of how governments can monitor the state of the epidemic and act accordingly. The elements of the model include:
- Collecting and developing robust data on the coronavirus’s real-time effective reproduction number and other related data.
- Based on the data, governments need to decide the extent to which their health systems can deal with it.
- Decide the extent to which people can accept the disruption of economy.
