eprintid: 42276 rev_number: 27 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/04/22/76 datestamp: 2021-03-05 14:20:28 lastmod: 2021-08-01 01:00:10 status_changed: 2021-05-20 15:06:15 type: article succeeds: 34958 metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Gollier, Christian creators_idrefppn: 03126123X creators_affiliation: UT1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) creators_halaffid: 1002422 title: If the objective is herd immunity, on whom should it be built? ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: Assuming that there is no other solution than herd immunity in front of the current pandemic, on which groups of citizens should we build this herd immunity? Given the fact that young people face a mortality rate which is at least a thousand times smaller than people aged 70 years and more, there is a simple rational to build it on these younger generations. The transfer of some mortality risk from the elderly to younger people raises difficult ethical issues. However, none of the familiar moral or operational guidelines (equality of rights, VSL, QALY, ...) that have been used in the Western world over the last century weights the value of young lives 1000 times or more than the lives of the elders. This suggests that Society could offer covid protection to the elders by recommending them to remain confined as long as this herd immunity has not been attained by the younger generations. This would be a potent demonstration of intergenerational solidarity towards the most vulnerable people in our community. The welfare gain of this age-specific deconfinement strategy is huge, as it can reduce the global death toll by more than 80% as compared to a strategy of non-targeted herd immunity. date: 2020-08 date_type: published publisher: Springer Netherlands id_number: 10.1007/s10640-020-00504-2 official_url: https://www.tse-fr.eu/sites/default/files/TSE/documents/doc/by/gollier/covideconomics_ethics.pdf faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: TRUE doi: 10.1007/s10640-020-00504-2 view_date_year: 2020 full_text_status: public publication: Environmental and Resource Economics volume: vol. 76 number: n° 4 pagerange: 671-683 refereed: TRUE issn: 0924-6460 oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:125159 harvester_local_overwrite: volume harvester_local_overwrite: publish_to_hal harvester_local_overwrite: pending harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn harvester_local_overwrite: title harvester_local_overwrite: creators_halaffid harvester_local_overwrite: publisher harvester_local_overwrite: note harvester_local_overwrite: number harvester_local_overwrite: hal_id harvester_local_overwrite: hal_version harvester_local_overwrite: hal_url harvester_local_overwrite: hal_passwd harvester_local_overwrite: official_url oai_lastmod: 2021-05-04T09:04:34Z oai_set: tse site: ut1 publish_to_hal: TRUE hal_id: hal-03160822 hal_passwd: ce7&@9 hal_version: 1 hal_url: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03160822 citation: Gollier, Christian (2020) If the objective is herd immunity, on whom should it be built? Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 76 (n° 4). pp. 671-683. document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/42276/1/covideconomics_ethics.pdf