BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoNearly 2 million excess deaths followed China's sudden end of COVID curbs - studywww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1177arrow-down13
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minus-squarejet@hackertalks.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down3·1 year agoAs sad and sobering as this is, it does mean their very strict quarantine was effective in delaying the deaths of 2M people for 2-3 years. That’s 75,000 lives* worth of time saved. (80 years per life estimate)
minus-squarecyd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·1 year agoThey probably saved many more lives than that. They largely bypassed the Delta variant, which I think was the most murderous Covid wave globally.
As sad and sobering as this is, it does mean their very strict quarantine was effective in delaying the deaths of 2M people for 2-3 years.
That’s 75,000 lives* worth of time saved. (80 years per life estimate)
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They probably saved many more lives than that. They largely bypassed the Delta variant, which I think was the most murderous Covid wave globally.