1/x Beyond the more direct costs associated with #covidー19 there will also be massive associated opportunity costs! Here& #39;s an ongoing thread with examples.

One example: the suspension of polio eradication campaigns! https://bit.ly/2VaMvkL ">https://bit.ly/2VaMvkL&q...
‘We have no choice.’ Pandemic forces polio eradication group to halt campaigns

Suspension of vaccinations expected to lead to fresh outbreaks in polio-free countries

https://bit.ly/2VaMvkL
2/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost: https://twitter.com/emilylmullin/status/1248318258446548992">https://twitter.com/emilylmul...
3/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost: https://twitter.com/DrugChannels/status/1247135742691868673">https://twitter.com/DrugChann...
4/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost: https://twitter.com/ReedAbelson/status/1250061692651950084">https://twitter.com/ReedAbels...
5/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost:

The Untold Toll — The Pandemic’s Effects on Patients without Covid-19 https://bit.ly/2RGBfuv ">https://bit.ly/2RGBfuv&q...
The Untold Toll — The Pandemic’s Effects on Patients without Covid-19 | NEJM

Medicine and Society from The New England Journal of Medicine — The Untold Toll — The Pandemic’s Effects on Patients without Covid-19

https://bit.ly/2RGBfuv
6/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost: https://twitter.com/glassmanamanda/status/1252388582091677698">https://twitter.com/glassmana...
7/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost: https://twitter.com/snirody/status/1253066088889364480">https://twitter.com/snirody/s...
8/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost:

Vaccine Rates Drop Dangerously as Parents Avoid Doctor’s Visits https://nyti.ms/3eHEuvr ">https://nyti.ms/3eHEuvr&q...
Vaccine Rates Drop Dangerously as Parents Avoid Doctor’s Visits

Afraid of Covid-19, parents are postponing well-child checkups, including shots, putting millions of children at risk of exposure to preventable deadly diseases.

https://nyti.ms/3eHEuvr
9/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost: https://twitter.com/FutureDocs/status/1254578171523010560">https://twitter.com/FutureDoc...
10/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost:

How covid-19 response disrupted health services in rural India https://bit.ly/2WgGyCu ">https://bit.ly/2WgGyCu&q...
How covid-19 response disrupted health services in rural India

Rural provision of health services declined in February and crashed in March, affecting everything from BCG immunisation to treatment for acute cardiac emergencies, official data shows

https://bit.ly/2WgGyCu
11/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost:

COVID-19 will set fight against TB back at least 5 years https://bit.ly/2Wa6cd6 ">https://bit.ly/2Wa6cd6&q...
12/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost:

Three months of COVID-19 may mean 80,000 missed cancer diagnoses https://bit.ly/3ccvdd5 ">https://bit.ly/3ccvdd5&q...
Three months of COVID-19 may mean 80,000 missed cancer diagnoses

A backlog of 22 million canceled or postponed tests for five common cancers is expected by early June.

https://bit.ly/3ccvdd5
13/x 3/x referenced postponed and canceled clinical trials.... Well, some numbers are now in:

https://bit.ly/2LcxY2h ">https://bit.ly/2LcxY2h&q... More than 1,000 clinical trials were stopped by the pandemic — including dozens in PhIII
More than 1,000 clinical trials were stopped by the pandemic — including dozens in PhIII

We’ve been hearing plenty of anecdotal evidence of the damage done by the Covid-19 outbreak globally to drug R&D. But a researcher now based in Berlin trawled the data available online and came up...

https://bit.ly/2LcxY2h
14/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost: https://twitter.com/CynthiaLKoons/status/1258745252216782848">https://twitter.com/CynthiaLK...
15/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost:

Remittances are a lifeline for tens of millions of families around the world. But as the coronavirus pandemic limits the ability of migrants to work and send their wages back home, that lifeline is drying up.
15/x bis... Here& #39;s the link: https://bbc.in/2LieucF ">https://bbc.in/2LieucF&q...
Coronavirus: Migrants struggle to send money home

The Covid-19 pandemic is limiting the ability of people to send and receive money around the world.

https://bbc.in/2LieucF
16/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost:

Women Bear The Brunt Of Coronavirus Job Losses https://n.pr/2Tcluwf ">https://n.pr/2Tcluwf&q...
Women Bear The Brunt Of Coronavirus Job Losses

Before the coronavirus crisis, there were briefly more women on American payrolls than men. That's no longer true. Women accounted for 55% of the increase in job losses last month.

https://n.pr/2Tcluwf
17/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost: https://twitter.com/ErinMichos/status/1260418859611361285">https://twitter.com/ErinMicho...
18/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost: https://twitter.com/CDDEP/status/1263168914281959426">https://twitter.com/CDDEP/sta...
19/x Another example of #covidー19 opportunity cost: https://twitter.com/KHNews/status/1265626181858140160">https://twitter.com/KHNews/st...
20/x Article on #COVID19 collateral costs (with some repeats of previously called out - in this thread - consequences)

What is the true scale of the collateral damage caused by Covid-19 – and what can we do to stop it? https://bbc.in/3eCDkki ">https://bbc.in/3eCDkki&q...
Why most Covid-19 deaths won’t be from the virus

From a famine of “biblical” proportions to a deluge of undiagnosed cancers, while we’re all worrying about the coronavirus, most fatalities could be collateral damage.

https://bbc.in/3eCDkki
You can follow @snirody.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled:
There are a lot of misconceptions about the Turkish diaspora in Germany. Since i just finished writing an essay about this topic I thought it's time to give other people
Read more
Las mejores calculadoras online en 2020A thread http://totumat.com/2020/11/26/las-mejores-calculadoras-online-en-2020/ Cuando se estudian asignaturas que requieren de cálculos complicados, nada mejor que contar con una buena calculadora.
Read more
Mitigating #ClimateChange is as much about taking up new techs as about leaving others behindMost studies focus on #coal's global downfall but another #energy tech decline is loomingRead my new
Read more