Is the vast cost of stopping COVID-19 deaths really worth it?
Dr Malcolm Kendrick crunches the numbers on saving lives in times of a global pandemic
The global response to the coronavirus threat is coming at vast social and economic cost with hundreds of thousands of jobs lost and millions of lives turned up-side-down.
Here, Dr Malcolm Kendrick, a Scottish GP, sceptic and author, asks that basic question: How much should we spend to save a human life threatened by COVID-19?
Note: this article was first published on 29 March on his website.
The current COVID pandemic has brought a very thorny and difficult issue to the forefront. How much money should we, as a society, spend on keeping people healthy and alive?
