New publication: Life-years lost due to COVID-19 in 2020
See this new article authored by Ilan Noy and Vu Nguyen Doan, "A comprehensive measure of life-years lost due to COVID-19 in 2020: a comparison across countries" published in Global Policy.
In this paper, the authors use the life-years measure, incorporating fatalities, injuries, dislocations, and the financial damages they wreck, to compare the impact of COVID-19 across countries. The paper makes these conclusions:
- The loss associated with COVID-19 in 2020 is much larger than the annual loss associated with other disasters worldwide
- It is the economic loss that dominates, while most of the public’s and media’s attention is understandably turned to the human health toll
- It is small countries that have borne a very heavy load that is, to some extent, over-looked, for example countries like Guyana and the Maldives are experiencing a very dramatic and painful crisis, largely under the radar of the world’s attention
- Countries that experienced a deeper health crisis also experienced a deeper economic one
Read the article for the complete picture.
