Fig. 5: Results on age-specific fear of infection.
From: The unequal effects of the health–economy trade-off during the COVID-19 pandemic
a, Aggregate deaths and unemployment across scenarios. The general interpretation is the same as Fig. 3; here, uniform fear is represented by circles and age-specific fear is represented by plus symbols. b, For the scenario ‘all open–early start’, time series of the level of workplace and community contacts and consumption demand of customer-facing industries, disaggregated by type of fear (solid lines, age-specific fear and dashed lines, uniform fear) and by age groups with heterogeneous fear. These time series show how fear of infection reduces contacts and consumption demand. c, For the same scenario as b, the time series of infections per 1,000 individuals disaggregated by age groups and by whether they occurred outside or within households, and actual consumption demand (relative to the pre-pandemic level) disaggregated by industry and by whether industries are customer facing or not.
