If, on the other hand, the counterfactual is “you get covid a few years later”, then the loss of expected life does not occur.
What’s the intuition here? If we believe that infection confers less immunity than immunization, naively the counterfactual looks more like “get covid N-1 times” vs “get covid N times.” Rather than “get covid once now” vs “get covid once some time in the future”
What’s the intuition here? If we believe that infection confers less immunity than immunization, naively the counterfactual looks more like “get covid N-1 times” vs “get covid N times.” Rather than “get covid once now” vs “get covid once some time in the future”