Collapse and Recovery: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Eroded Human Capital and What to Do about It

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic has arguably been an enormous global shock to health, economies, and daily life [ 25 ]. The countries were faced with major challenges in this extraordinary situation: collapses of their healthcare systems, including workforce shortages; poorly developed primary and preventive care; low health expenditure [ 26 ]; colossal disruption in the supply chain networks of medicines, masks, ventilators, testing kits, and commodities required for daily care; high mortality rates among patients with concomitant diseases [ 27 ]; job loss; imposition of lockdown and social distancing measures such as closing schools, stores, restaurants, and bars and prohibiting public activities [ 28 ].…”