Offline: CoHERE—a call for a post-pandemic health strategy

Abstract

Will the cure be worse than the disease? This question received sharp attention last week when Fraser Nelson, editor of the conservative-leaning magazine The Spectator and writing in The Daily Telegraph, reported a leaked UK Government document revealing that long-term avoidable deaths from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown could reach 150 000. That figure was, he suggested, far higher than the number of deaths expected from COVID-19. These “lockdown victims”, as he called them, are now a major concern for government.