{"id":114475,"date":"2020-03-27T13:09:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=114475"},"modified":"2020-06-19T16:29:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T02:29:38","slug":"mitigate-covid-crisis-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/27\/mitigate-covid-crisis-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"UHERO<\/abbr>: Stopping COVID-19 spread critically important to economy"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> needs to quickly adopt and implement a plan to control and then halt the spread of the coronavirus or the cost in terms of lives and damage to the economy will be catastrophic. A recent policy brief<\/a> by the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Economic Research Organization<\/a> outlines how the state can accomplish this.<\/p>\n

The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic had an infection rate of 28 percent and a death rate of 2.5 percent for the infected population. If the coronavirus follows the same path in penetrating Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>\u2019s current population of 1.4 million, it would lead to 9,800 deaths. <\/p>\n