Yes, and there are all the associated personal and family costs that come with this. I'm an economist, so I use numbers quite a lot, but behind the numbers are people and lives and families. It's not an abstract thing when you recognize the cost of COVID-19. That's why we need to keep working together to make sure that the policies that we're going to keep assessing and keep evolving will be policies based on outcomes for real people.
On March 21st, 2022. See this statement in context.