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Table 8 Estimated number of saved lives (by September 1)

From: Saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic: the benefits of the first Swiss lockdown

  

SIR model

SIRDC model

 

Actual

Direct

Overflow

Excess

Direct

Overflow

Excess

0–9

1

0

1028

1027

0

19

18

10–19

0

0

197

197

0

4

4

20–29

0

0

993

993

0

14

14

30–39

5

159

1636

1790

38

49

82

40–49

6

106

2438

2538

26

66

86

50–64

90

2490

7599

9999

581

336

827

65–79

455

28,812

33,971

62,328

4968

858

5371

80+

1215

33,830

14,409

47,024

5871

178

4834

Total

1772

65,397

62,271

125,896

11,484

1524

11,236

  1. Note: This table reports the number of saved lives in each age group according to both a basic SIR model and our SIRDC model accounting for seasonality and endogenous behavioral responses. The estimated number of saved lives is computed as the difference between the total number of predicted fatalities (direct and overflow) and the actual number of occurred deaths