Change in quality adjusted life years, or variants thereof, are one standard for health-economic evaluation but are obviously very hard to get quality data on.

Change in quality adjusted life years, or variants thereof, are one standard for health-economic evaluation but are obviously very hard to get quality data on. That would capture not only years of life lost but also the quality of those years. Long-covid seems to be a serious issue for a lot of people and an accurate estimate of that impact would be very valuable.