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Six million dollars for each life saved is too high
Better targeted social distancing could preserve almost as many lives – and leave more to be spent on other health issues.
Sam LovickContributorLast week, three close friends and family lost their jobs because of COVID-19. Two were in hospitality, unsurprising perhaps, but the other was in engineering.
The economic costs of this pandemic are clearly huge. Which led me to think not that the cure is worse than the disease but, more constructively, are there ways to lower the costs?
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