TY - BOOK ID - 138686855 TI - An Estimation of the Economic Costs of Social-Distancing Policies AU - Strong, Aaron AU - Welburn, Jonathan W. PY - 2020 PB - Santa Monica, Calif. RAND Corporation DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138686855 AB - Many state and local officials are making social-distancing policy decisions based on the actions of other locations rather than through a decisionmaking framework that evaluates these measures and their reduction of the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This report provides an initial assessment of the possible short-term economy-wide effects of social distancing. These results should be taken as rough order-of-magnitude estimates meant to help inform decisionmakers during the COVID-19 crisis. ER -