The calculus of death shows the COVID lock-down is clearly worth the cost
- Written by Neil Bailey, Research Fellow at the Epworth Centre for Innovation in Mental Health, Monash University
Will the number of lives saved as a result of the COVID-19 restrictions be outweighed by the deaths from an economic recession?
This is a vital question to answer for governments responding to the current global tragedy.
Without numbers, there’s no obvious way of working out whether the economic impacts of the lock-down could be more harmful...
