> The only measure that matters is deaths from COVID. ONLY !?!? Disagree. That's the most important measure, sure, but months of fever, delusions, aching bones, and then a year or more of impaired respiration afterwards ain't nothing. Deaths matter. But so do cases. https://twitter.com/RBPundit/status/1283739244666802176 …
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4/ anyway, given that we value * life: $8M * yr of quality life: $130k if we assume that covid knocks off 1 yr of quality life, one plausible metric for utility is utility loss = num deaths + 0.16 * num non-fatal cases /exeunt
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