Open AccessBetter than Nothing?: Consequence of Incomplete Treatment of COVID-19
Author(s) -
Yasunori Fujita
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
business and management research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1927-601X
pISSN - 1927-6001
DOI - 10.5430/bmr.v10n3p11
Subject(s) - nothing , covid-19 , pandemic , simple (philosophy) , vaccination , medicine , virology , outbreak , philosophy , epistemology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
With seemingly no end to the global pandemic in sight, high expectations are growing for the development of medicines to treat COVID-19, in addition to the vaccination which has been carried out recently. In Japan also, development of such medicines is accelerating and now four COVID-19 medicines have been approved.There is, however, concern that the COVID-19 medicines are not always effective, so that, in the present paper, we investigate the consequence of incomplete treatment of COVID-19-infected patients by constructing a simple intertemporal theoretical model. Main result we obtained is that incomplete treatment of infected patients increases number of the infected people, which is equivalent to say “worse than nothing”.