Re:South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as f...
by umanwizard on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:40PM
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> I personally think that YLL of 2-9x the flu after mitigations clearly justified the mitigations
To properly debate this claim we need to know (1) the baseline -- how many YLLs are caused by flu?, and (2) how many YLLs were _saved_ by the mitigations. (Would we have had 2x more Covid deaths without them? 10x? 1.1x?)
To properly debate this claim we need to know (1) the baseline -- how many YLLs are caused by flu?, and (2) how many YLLs were _saved_ by the mitigations. (Would we have had 2x more Covid deaths without them? 10x? 1.1x?)