The coronavirus outbreak identified in Wuhan, China brought the majority of countries in the world under lockdown. The socioeconomic consequences will be, without doubt, severe and enormous. In this paper, we investigate the sharing approach as a strategy to help reduce the heavy toll of the pandemic. A state of the art is provided to describe the virus propagation, the rationale behind the emergence of the sharing concept as well as its impact in a pandemic context. Finally, we suggest a list of recommendations for policy makers in order to attempt the endorsement of the sharing economy to enrich existing measures that have been taken in the same respect.
Sharing Economy in a context of pandemic propagation : Case of the COVID19