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cord-119626-qb6fea06	Cruz-Aponte, Mayte'e	Balancing Fiscal and Mortality Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Mitigation Measurements	2020-06-02		.txt	text/plain	3176	181	58	We constructed an enhanced mathematical SIR (Susceptible, Infected, Recovered) epidemic model [5] to simulate the COVID-19 epidemic in the US in an attempt to estimate the fiscal impact and the optimal conditions to mitigate this ongoing pandemic. Figure 2 : Varying physical distancing starting two days after the epidemic: lowering the infection rate 20% for four-week intervals and increasing it between 50% to 75% for eight weeks intervals as described on Table 2 . When the infection is reduced by 40% or 80%, the associated cost of the pandemic to the government decreased by $51.4 billion than when the public health policy is implemented earlier like in Figure 4 . When infection is reduced by 90% for eight weeks, mortality is 10,713 lower than in the herd immunity case and the fiscal cost of the pandemic is the minimum with respect to any of the scenarios presented in this article.	./cache/cord-119626-qb6fea06.txt	./txt/cord-119626-qb6fea06.txt