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writer admits the UK ***numbers are speculative. despite that, US figures, given its population, would no doubt be multiples of those for UK:

22 Jul: Spiked Online UK: The fatal cost of lockdown
Many more will suffer and die because of this policy than were saved by it.
by Rob Lyons, convenor of the Academy of Ideas Economy Forum
This week, the Telegraph reported on a government study, published in April, which estimated both the short-term and long-term impacts of lockdown. In short, it concluded that while lockdown would reduce the number of cases of Covid-19, the collateral damage would be enormous. So was lockdown worth it?

***The report, produced by the Department of Health, the Office of National Statistics (ONS), the government’s Actuary Department and the Home Office, concluded that the disease itself would kill 50,000, but delayed healthcare would kill 12,000 to 25,000 in the short term and 185,000 people in the long term. On top of that, recession could kill anywhere between 600 to 12,000 people, suicide would claim 500 lives, domestic violence about 20, and accidents at home would cause deaths in the ‘low tens’.
In short, perhaps 200,000 people or more could die as a result of the lockdown, according to these estimates...

Children will no doubt suffer from missing so much school...
The economic impact of lockdown is surely far greater than that of more limited action. Many young people entering the world of work right now will be held back in their careers by a spell of unemployment – perhaps affecting if and when they can later settle down and have children. The impact on sectors like hospitality – a sector that has been an important avenue for young people to gain experience and prove themselves in the world of work – could be particularly damaging. Middle-aged people being made redundant may suffer in later life from having lower pension savings...

And all of this ignores more subtle impacts of lockdowns, like the way that important freedoms have been tossed aside or the creation of a climate of fear, which means that even when the regulations are lifted, the impact of the lockdown continues long after...
Investment decisions may continue to be postponed if businesses are fearful, too.

Did our politicians really factor in these impacts when they decided to keep the majority of us at home and forcibly shut down thousands of businesses and schools? Or did they, facing a new viral disease, panic at the problem right in front of them in the face of endless criticism in the media?...
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/22/the-fatal-cost-of-lockdown/