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My first thought is that it didn't really save lives. 322k now die of other causes.
by jack9 9y ago
My first thought is that it didn't really save lives. 322k now die of other causes.
- dexterdog 9y agoYou gotta die from something.
- nathancahill 9y agoMe too thanks.
- copperx 9y agoSure. When you die of other causes, you don't die of cancer. This is middle school set theory.
- criddell 9y agoI think you are agreeing with the parent. 300,000+ lives are saved... for now. I've thought about this too. No life is saved, it is only prolonged. If these people have been given an extra five years of life, that must be a pretty spectacular return on investment. Compare how much was spent developing and administering treatment to the value of 1.5 million years of life.
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- loco5niner 9y agoThat's true. Hospitals, doctors, vaccines, eating... none of them save lives.
- eru 9y agoAnd that's why we use quality-adjusted-life-years (qaly) as the measure of treatment success. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year