Surely someone has done the maths on vaccinations.

[andrewducker]

Today I spent £108 on getting myself vaccinated against Flu and Covid.

Which led me to wonder what the cost of days off is to the economy. And how far off we are from it being worth the government vaccinating everyone.

Comments

[liv]

Yeah, JCVI did the maths but they did it in a really oversimplified way. They counted the cost of hospitalizations and concluded that outcome is rare enough in under 75s who have probably already had Covid by now that it's not worth vaccinating them – the NNTT is too high. But they did not in fact count the cost of working age people being off sick for several weeks a year, and ignored long covid altogether. That's how we got into this terrible situation with NHS vaccines restricted to a really tiny group.

[andrewducker]

That's certainly the impression I've had. Thank you.

[lilysea]

They also haven't counted that COVID

a) can cause type 2 diabetes in people who didn't previously have it (because it damages the pancreas)

b) increases the risk of certain cancers (because it messes with the immune system)

c) can restart some cancers that were in remission (because it messes with the immune system)

d) increases the risk of heart attack and stroke for at least 2 years

e) increases the risk of dementia