QALYs (using Covid vaccines as an analogy)

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We use QALYs to judge how good treatments are and compare them to other treatments, but what are their limitations? Can we use the recent discussions about whether teenagers should be vaccinated against Covid to illustrate these things about QALYs? Listen to find out how successfully we've done this!

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We use QALYs to judge how good treatments are and compare them to other treatments, but what are their limitations? Can we use the recent discussions about whether teenagers should be vaccinated against Covid to illustrate these things about QALYs?...

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