And waddya know, there's already a Harvard paper proposing the very idea. I think Andrew just likes to show off that he knows stuff before we do.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00927-3

Here is a link to the paper itself.

https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42639016

The authors of the paper are:

Dr. Marc Lipsitch
Professor of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard University https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/marc-lipsitch/ 

Dr. Peter Smith
CBE BSc DSc HonMFPH FMedSci
PROFESSOR OF TROPICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/smith.peter

Nir Eyal, DPhil

Henry Rutgers Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Center for Population–Level Bioethics (CPLB)

Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy

https://sph.rutgers.edu/concentrations/health-behavior-society-policy/faculty-member.php?id=106615

So there are your epidemiologists and bio-ethicists in favor of the craaaaaaazy idea Yang brought up.