Loss of Life Caused by Lockdown Job Loss is 15-20 X Greater than COVID-19 Itself — Dr David Katz
Channel: Hyper Wellbeing
Date: 2020-08-17

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"Here in the U.S. 40 million people have lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic and the estimates are that about half of those job losses are permanent or long-term so that's 20 million long-term job losses. If you multiply 20 million by say the, let's let's use the lower number one year that's 20 million

person years of life lost we've had 160,000 deaths from COVID in this country, and the estimate is that on average people are losing 10 years to the virus and I think that's actually high, but even if we accept that number that's 1.6 million person years in other words the life lost from the lockdown is 15 to 20 times greater than the life lost from the virus itself"

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Video sourced from 'The COVID-19 Science and Policy Symposium' - https://www.covidplanb.co.nz/event/ - entire event video -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf_zWtdKKKQ

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Job Displacement and Mortality: An Analysis Using Administrative Data, https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/124/3/1265/1905153

Trade Liberalization and Mortality: Evidence from U.S. Counties, https://sompks4.github.io/public/mortality_321.pdf