The elderly and COVID-19: cocooning or culling—the choice is ours

Overview of attention for article published in QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, April 2020

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Reminds me of an assistant editor of The Daily Telegraph who was in the news for noting that "from an entirely disinterested economic perspective, the COVID-19 might even prove mildly beneficial in the long term by disproportionately culling elderly d…