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    The road to recovery: how targeted lockdowns can help improve the U.S. reopening

    May 22, 2020 5 minutes
    By Daron Acemoglu, Victor Chernozhukov, Iván Werning and Michael Whinston

    WITH NO END IN SIGHT TO THE COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. seems to be faced with an unappealing choice: If we prioritize saving lives, we court economic ruin. If we opt for economic recovery, we lose friends, colleagues and loved ones. The available options need not be so grim. With the right policy decisions, and well-coordinated action to implement them, America’s possibilities can improve substantially.

    In a recently released National Bureau of Economic Research paper, we report on our research focusing on one strategy that can yield large gains: targeting lockdowns based on health risks—specifically, age. As is well documented, the mortality risk from COVID-19 is highly correlated to age. Because those over 65 years of age have around 60

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