Imo one of the biggest issues is not the unit of measurement but the comparison. QALYs are as good a metric any other, WTP thresholds are fine, but you have to compare government action to a reasonable counterfactual
The screening programs won't release their reports until next year on number of accesses, but it would be very surprising if we managed to diagnose the same number of cancers without screening identifying cases
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It's also incorrect to postulate that lockdowns had a universally negative impact on non-COVID health. Notably, deaths due to accidents dropped dramatically, and since impact young people the impact would not be small i.e.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.28.20183699v2 …
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Sure. Valid point. Traumas down. Probably surgical deaths from expected complications too! It would be one hell of a model!
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