"We lost more life years from trying to avoid COVID than COVID actually got out of us," he says. "I don't think we know very much about the impact of multiple times trying with our immune system" The vaccine has had a big effect on life expectancy through non coven causes like alcohol, drugs and traffic.
When there's no vaccine on the market, people will look for other ways to be safe, including school closures and the handwashing of groceries. Listen as economist Casey Mulligan of the University Chicago talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the costs of delaying a vaccine, the hidden costs of FDA regulation, and what we learned and failed to learn about the Covid pandemic.