Border closures are destructive and should only be implemented as a last resort, a York University study of the early stages of the pandemic found.
“With targeted closures, policymakers were making an educated guess. There was not enough testing … They were missing people coming from countries where they did not know the virus was already circulating,” the paper’s lead author Mathieu Poirier told the Star.
Poirier is a social epidemiology professor at York University and the co-director of Global Strategy Lab which advises governments and public health organizations on how to design laws, policies and institutions against global challenges. “Border closures should only be implemented as a last resort. For most countries, in most situations, border closures are not going to be the best approach,” said Poirier.
“If other less disruptive measures are not possible, then applying border closures early is key and total closures are preferable to targeted ones,” he explained.
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