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Pandemic lockdowns saved lives, study finds. But they weren’t without cost. - mlive.com

Pandemic lockdowns saved lives, study finds. But they weren’t without cost. - mlive.com

Pandemic lockdowns saved lives, study finds. But they weren’t without cost. - mlive.com
Jan 21, 2022 1 min, 22 secs

during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to reduce the spread of coronavirus and to save lives.

Researchers came up with ranges of estimates for potential lives saved thanks to the lockdowns, and compared them to estimates of potential lives lost due to the $2.3 million economic downturn.

In other words, researchers wanted to form an apples-to-apples comparison of lives saved by slowing the spread of the virus, versus lives lost as collateral damage to the public health measures put in place.

What the researchers determined was that the number of lives saved by the spring-summer lockdowns and other COVID mitigation strategies was greater than the number of lives potentially lost due to the economic downturn.

potentially saved anywhere between 866,000 and 1.7 million lives.

The study estimated that the quality-adjusted life expectancy added by the lockdown was somewhere between 4.89 million and 9.65 million years, compared to 2.09 to 8.86 million years lost due to the economic downturn.

“We evaluated the full packet of public health measures as it was implemented in the beginning of the pandemic, but lesser mitigation measures may have worked just as well to reduce lives lost,” Yakusheva said.

Compared to the early months of the pandemic, health systems have come a long way in determining how to detect, treat and prevent cases of COVID-19.

U-M researchers behind the study called it the first known paper to measure the effect of pandemic lockdown mitigation measures on lives saved and lost, as opposed to typical economic evaluations, which examine the cost per life saved.

It’s titled “Lives saved and lost in the first six months of the US COVID-19 pandemic: A retrospective cost-benefit analysis.”.

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