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Coronaviruses roadmap:
Control Strategies

Roadmap for the development of disease control strategies for coronaviruses

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Cost benefits

Cost benefits

Research Question

  • An understanding of the unintended consequences and indirect costs of a control strategy, both economic and environmental costs

Research Gaps and Challenges

  • A poor understanding cost-benefits in the context of wildlife control
  • Acquiring resources to conduct long-term outbreak management exercises
  • Standardizing and benchmarking surveillance methods to establish comparability across labs/regions/host species
  • Demonstrating the benefit of control measures when often wildlife and agricultural control is far removed from members of the public

Solution Routes

  • Assessments of socioeconomic effects (including environmental impact) of current control strategies
  • Developing models to evaluate the socioeconomic effects of alternative strategies

Dependencies

  • Standard methodology for economic assessment on a global scale
  • Consideration for the ecological impacts of control (e.g. use of disinfectants) and the health impacts of spillback itself