This line from the paper is another neat summary, again over-estimating years saved from preventing covid deaths:
“ For example, in the case of a six-month delay in cancer diagnoses, if the average life-years saved from averted Covid-19 deaths is four, more than 43,385 Covid-19 deaths need to have been prevented for the UK lockdown to be the correct policy choice in terms of a maximization of life-years saved. ”
This is also before considering all the other costs and effects of covid-restriction policies.
