Covid

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Covid is a disease that currently approximately seems to kill a round about two in a hundred people who get it. But it's now emerging that it may leave up to ten times more people who get it with some kind of lasting damage to their health. And certainly the whole kind of burden of health as a policy calculation is much more prominent in low middling come nations, whereit is a key determinant of how you spend your very limited health funds.

The global burden of COVID-19 has predominantly been measured using metrics like case numbers, hospitalisations and deaths. But the long term health impacts are more difficult to capture. In this episode of Coronapod we discuss one way that public health experts are trying to get to grips with the problem using metrics such as disability adjusted life years (DALYs) and quality adjusted life years (QALYs).

As new data suggests that COVID could leave millions with lasting disability or ill-health, we ask how changing the lens through which we asses the impacts of COVID could change public health policies, the perception of risk and even the behaviour of individuals.

News Feature: The four most urgent questions about long COVID

Comment: Count the cost of disability caused by COVID-19

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