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Letter: What value should we place on a human life?

Published 22 October 2025

From Dyane Silvester Arnside, Cumbria, UK

Your article on covid-19 vaccines’ economic benefits lays out the stark disparity between the value that governments and businesses put on human lives (the lower estimated benefit of $5 trillion), and the value that individuals do ($38 trillion). No wonder so many of us feel that “society” doesn’t value or care about us: these figures highlight just how much it doesn’t(20 September, p 8).

Issue no. 3566 published 25 October 2025

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