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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...

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