Alternating lockdown strategy can help defeat COVID-19 and sustain socio-economic activity

(Bar-Ilan University) Researchers devised a strategy based on alternating lockdowns. Together with isolation of the symptomatic spreaders and the adoption of everyday prophylactic behaviors, this strategy can help defeat the virus, while sustaining socio-economic activity at a 50% level. They simulated the spread of COVID-19 using a detailed epidemiological model and found that employing their strategy significantly reduces the spread and helps flatten the curve, with effectiveness comparable to...