id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-253910-pmurx4jh Miles, David “Stay at Home, Protect the National Health Service, Save Lives”: a cost benefit analysis of the lockdown in the United Kingdom 2020-08-13 .txt text/plain 6375 302 62 We calibrate estimates of the economic costs as different % loss in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) against possible benefits of avoiding life years lost, for different scenarios where current COVID‐19 mortality and comorbidity rates were used to calculate the loss in life expectancy and adjusted for their levels of poor health and quality of life. All rights reserved We selected 10 European countries with populations over five million and average income/person over £15,000/year and examine the relation between the outcomes of the excess death as reported in Human Mortality Database of the University of California (5) and the different levels of lockdown as calculated and reported as a composite measure based on nine response indicators including school closures, workplace closures, hospitality venue closures and travel bans, in the Government Response Stringency from Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (6) to see if there were any clear relationships. ./cache/cord-253910-pmurx4jh.txt ./txt/cord-253910-pmurx4jh.txt