Expert Comment: How our novel model resolves the key pandemic policy debates

Published on November 17, 2023

Were lockdowns an effective response to Covid-19 or would it have been better to limit intervention and let individuals spontaneously reduce their own risk of infection?  Three years on from the public health emergency that caught governments across the world off-guard, official inquiries into pandemic policy responses are gathering pace, aiming to provide a definitive answer to this hotly contested question. 

By Professor Doyne Farmer, Director of the Complexity Economics Programme at INET Oxford, and Marco Pangallo, a Researcher at the CENTAI Institute (Centre for Artificial Intelligence) in Turin. 
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