The estimate undersells long COVID because we don’t know how many years of 3.2m QALYs to add, but yes that’s roughly it. And yes, I only claim that it was a decent deal, particularly since the funding for it couldn’t really have gone on something else.
I freely admit that it could be off by a large factor (see my final paragraph). I would love for someone to come and do a proper Bayesian interval version, which would foreground the uncertainty.
I continue to challenge calling it “unrealistic”, on priors, just because it’s very uncertain. Last January, a historical baseline would have called it unrealistic to expect completion of vaccine R&D, trials, approvals, and distribution in 11 months. But here we are. I would have you be less sure about what’s not possible, or not realistic.
The estimate undersells long COVID because we don’t know how many years of 3.2m QALYs to add, but yes that’s roughly it. And yes, I only claim that it was a decent deal, particularly since the funding for it couldn’t really have gone on something else.
I freely admit that it could be off by a large factor (see my final paragraph). I would love for someone to come and do a proper Bayesian interval version, which would foreground the uncertainty.
I continue to challenge calling it “unrealistic”, on priors, just because it’s very uncertain. Last January, a historical baseline would have called it unrealistic to expect completion of vaccine R&D, trials, approvals, and distribution in 11 months. But here we are. I would have you be less sure about what’s not possible, or not realistic.