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Re: U.S. Could Have Avoided Nearly 400,000 COVID Deaths: Researchers

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 26 Mar 21 7:02 AM | 25 view(s)
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Yes, but...

There were not many countries that dodged the covid bullet and even they don't know why.

Some factors may not be controllable, such as climate.

A large part of what looks bad about the US experience is that it is a big country. On a per capita basis, it doesn't stand out as being especially awful, except in relation to the cost of US healthcare. After the first wave, it was Latin America that did especially badly. During the second wave, so far it's Central Europe.

Things could have been done a lot better. But the 400k number looks high to me. Germany, which has done better than most, has done far worse than that on a per capita basis.

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U.S. Could Have Avoided Nearly 400,000 COVID Deaths: Researchers
By: clo2 in ALEA
Thu, 25 Mar 21 10:33 PM 		Msg. 41454 of 54959

U.S. Could Have Avoided Nearly 400,000 COVID Deaths: Researchers

A string of research papers released this week at a Brookings Institution conference say that the U.S. could have saved billions of dollars and nearly 400,000 lives if it had responded more effectively to COVID-19 with a coherent strategy in the first few months of the pandemic, Reuters reports. UCLA economics professor Andrew Atkeson concluded that if the U.S. had mandated mask-wearing and social distancing and established testing protocols by the end of last May, the country’s COVID-19 deaths could have remained under 300,000. So far, more than 540,000 Americans have died on account of the virus, and Atkeson estimated that the total death toll will ultimately be close to 670,000. He added that without a vaccine that number would be close to 1.27 million.

UC Berkeley economics professor Christine Romer added that the government’s economic response could have been better. The federal government has spent more than $5 trillion on relief packages and other COVID-related initiatives, and while she said that this likely will not cause an economic catastrophe, Romer is concerned that the government will not correctly prioritize their spending. She criticized initiatives like the Payment Protection Program saying that it was “problematic on many levels,” and that some aspects of stimulus payments were “largely ineffective and wasteful.”

Read it at Reuters
http://www.thedailybeast.com/us-could-have-avoided-nearly-400000-covid-deaths-researchers-say?via=newsletter&source=CSPMedition

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