during an epidemic? We study a setting where ICU resources are constrained while suppression is costly (e.g., limiting … suppression measures are continuously taken to hold down the spread throughout the epidemic, is suboptimal. Instead, the optimal … suppression is discountinuous. The epidemic should be left unregulated in a first phase and when the ICU constraint is approaching …

We study the problem of a policymaker who aims at taming the spread of an epidemic while minimizing its associated … characterized by three distinct periods: the epidemic is first let freely evolve, then vigorously tamed, and finally a less …