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Happy to be challenged on these numbers, as this isn't within my field of knowledge: * UK government value of prevented fatality: £2M [0] * UK government valu
by scrlk 3y ago
Happy to be challenged on these numbers, as this isn't within my field of knowledge:
* UK government value of prevented fatality: £2M [0]
* UK government value of a quality-adjusted life-year for a single person: £70k -> ~£192 per day [1]
[0] https://www.lse.ac.uk/PBS/assets/documents/Estimating-the-monetary-value-of-the-deaths-prevented-from-the-UK-Covid-19-lockdown-when-it-was-decided-upon-and-the-value-of-flattening-the-curve-June-2020.pdf https://www.lse.ac.uk/PBS/assets/documents/Estimating-the-mo...
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-green-book-appraisal-and-evaluation-in-central-governent/the-green-book-2020#a1-non-market-valuation-and-unmonetisable-values https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-green-book-ap...