18/n For context, this would mean that adding 3 years of schooling for every child would reduce their risk of death to literally 0% for the rest of their lives, effectively rendering them immortal
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29/n You will probably be interested
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30/n Overall, what we have is a paper where the mathematically impossible results have been removed, but is still flawed in numerous ways and useless as evidence for decision-making
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31/n The sad fact is that the approach the authors took, if implemented correctly, probably would not have found that school closures cost more YLL than COVID-19
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32/n This DOESN'T MEAN that school closures are a good thing, necessarily, but YLL is a measure inherently geared towards measuring people who have already died, and it's just not likely that closing schools has cost so much of this metric
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