Limitar la exposición de las personas más vulnerables como estrategia para minimizar los fallecimientos por COVID-19

  1. Buján Pérez, Alejandro
  2. Domínguez, Ignacio López
  3. Garcia, Pablo Mallaina
  4. Fresneda, Ramiro Romero
Journal:
Revista española de economía de la salud

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 15

Issue: 3

Pages: 15-26

Type: Article

Abstract

The foreseeable lifting of the containment measures that were taken in Spain to reduce the rate of contagion and avoid saturation of the health system caused by the COVID-19 pandemia, suggests making approaches to how to deal with it. Strategies are proposed until the infected population exceeds the herd immunity threshold: an initial unfiltered proportional reopening, an age-limiting one, and a more selective one, restricting mobility by age and only to people without chronic diseases. The results obtained show reductions in the potential number of deaths of 82.56 %, if it were limited only by age. If it were restricted by age and without chronic diseases the reduction grows up to 95.34 %. Therefore, the fatality rate would be reduced from 1.04 % to 0.18 % and 0.05 % respectively.