EXCLUSIVE: Lockdown disaster dwarfs Covid-19, say SA actuaries
Model shows 10% of South Africans will become poorer and lose a few months of their lives
05 May 2020 - 06:00
The lockdown will lead to 29 times more lives lost than the harm it seeks to prevent from Covid-19 in SA, according to a conservative estimate contained in a new model developed by local actuaries.
The model, which will be made public today for debate, was developed by a consortium calling itself Panda (Pandemic ~ Data Analysis), which includes four actuaries, an economist and a doctor, while the work was checked by lawyers and mathematicians. The process was led by two fellows at the Actuarial Society of SA, Peter Castleden and Nick Hudson...
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