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To what extent does economic impact weigh into epidemiological policy advisories? Surely epidemiologists aren't economists as well, even if the math is similar, is any group taking a multidisciplinary approach to policy advisory that includes robust economic analysis?

To expand on this idea, we already have a problem in the US with a rising incidence of deaths of dispair[1] , and there is a link between a person's economic position and life expectancy [2] . So it follows for a lot of people I know that if we let this become too big an economic hit, we will be making things substantially worse as more people will die and we will all be more poor too. What is your groups thoughts on this sort of analysis?

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/03/18/817687042/deaths-of-despair-examines-the-steady-erosion-of-u-s-working-class-life [2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2513561