Re:First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK
by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:46AM
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> it's harder to argue that care homes have a lot of QALYs to save.
Not true at all. They may have fewer life years left, but they're orders of magnitude more likely to die from Covid, so preventing a Covid case in this population actually saves more QALYs than preventing a case in a younger healthy person, statistically speaking.
Not true at all. They may have fewer life years left, but they're orders of magnitude more likely to die from Covid, so preventing a Covid case in this population actually saves more QALYs than preventing a case in a younger healthy person, statistically speaking.