Global versus focused isolation during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic-A cost-effectiveness analysis

Amir Shlomai; Ari Leshno; Ella H Sklan; Moshe Leshno

In China, where the pandemic has first emerged, drastic measures of social distancing and global isolation have successfully controlled virus spread enabling now a gradual release of the population from quarantine (18) . However, global adoption of these extreme measures is implicated in unprecedented social and economic costs that might, directly and indirectly, affect the health system, among many other aspects of our life, in the years to come. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find a more pragmatic and balanced strategy that will enable countries under a similar condition to handle this situation.