Replication Data for: A Simple Planning Problem for COVID-19 Lockdown, Testing and Tracing

We study the optimal lockdown for a planner who controls the fatalities of COVID- 19 while minimizing the output costs of the lockdown. The policy prescribes a severe lockdown beginning few weeks after the outbreak, covering almost 50% of the population after a month, with a total duration shy of four months. The intensity of the optimal lockdown depends on the gradient of the fatality rate with respect to the infected, and the availability of antibody testing, which yields a welfare gain of 2% of GDP. We also study test-tracing-quarantine, which we show to be complementary to lockdown.