Policy Response to Pandemic Influenza: The Value of Collective Action
Policy Response to Pandemic Influenza: The Value of Collective Action
This paper examines positive externalities and complementarities between countries in the use of antiviral pharmaceuticals to mitigate pandemic influenza. It demonstrates the presence of treatment externalities in simple SIR (susceptible-infectious-recovered) models and simulations of a Global Epidemiological Model. In these simulations, the pandemic spreads from city to city through the …