Years of life lost due to the psychosocial consequences of COVID19 mitigation strategies based on Swiss data

Dominik Andreas Moser; Jennifer Glaus; Sophia Frangou; Daniel Scott Schechter

PRi: A long-term study found that three years later, the proportion of persons with symptoms related to higher stress was still increased by a factor of 3.47 among those who had been in quarantine, thus demonstrating the long-term implications of the phenomenon (31) . One study that focused on an Australian population quarantined due to equine flu however suggested a similar 3fold increase in depression (32); We used this estimate to start our model as it was the most conservative. However not all depressions have long lasting impact and 84% of patients may remit across the following 3 years (33). To be conservative and only capture cases with full ffect on mortality, we therefore reduced additional cases by 84% leading to a PRi of 1.32