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. 2022 Jul 18;17(7):e0271523. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271523

Table 1. The human toll: Increased health harms due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Priority Public Health Condition Indirectly Affected by COVID-19 Relative Risk: Change Under COVID-19 (uncertainty range) Excess Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) Lost Due to COVID-19 per Million Total Population
Short-Term Long-Term
Depressive symptoms [1921] 1.37 (1.20–2.56) 24,831 43,807
Intimate partner violence [2224] 1.11 (1.05–1.16) 2,445 49,902
Homelessness [25] 6.67 (5.34–8.00) 12,951 3,527
Excessive alcohol use [12,20] 1.19 (1.07–1.42) 5,928 19,807
Opioid use disorder [26,27] 1.63 (1.33–1.98) 3,239 24,877
Stroke mortality [1315,2830] 1.53 (1.40–1.67) 1,214 --

QALYs: Quality-adjusted life years.