Covid Pandemic Slashes Life Expectancy — Here’s Where It Fell The Most

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The Covid-19 pandemic caused one of the biggest drops in life expectancy since World War II—here's where it fell the most:

Covid has cut life expectancy in many countries, disproportionately among men.Of the 29 countries studied by researchers from the University of Oxford, just Denmark and Norway did not see a drop in life expectancy in 2020, according to demographic data.

The U.S. recorded the biggest losses in both men and women—2.2 years and 1.65 years compared to 2019 levels, respectively—something Ridhi Kashyap, co-lead author of the study,could be partly explained by the “notable increase in” deaths among working aged people due to Covid-19. Men experienced bigger drops in life expectancy compared to women in most of the countries studied, falling by more than a year for men in 11 countries and in eight for women.

After the U.S., women in Spain and men in Lithuania, Bulgaria and Poland experienced the biggest drops in life expectancy, falling 1.5 years or more. To put the numbers in context, co-lead author José Manuel Aburto said it took an average of 5.6 years “for these countries to achieve a one-year increase in life expectancy… progress wiped out over the course of 2020 by Covid-19.”Aburto said the Covid-driven losses were, for many Western European countries like Spain, England, Wales, Italy and Belgium, so large that the last time “such large magnitudes of declines in life expectancy at birth were observed in a single year was during WW-II.

 

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Care to comment on this: Forward to 4.19, then tell me why your promoting it constantly, blood on your hands- it explains all:

It's been almost two years, I still don't know anyone that's had Covid19 or died from it.

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Covid Pandemic Slashes Life Expectancy — Here’s Where It Fell The MostI am a London-based reporter for Forbes covering breaking news. Previously, I have worked as a reporter for a specialist legal publication covering big data and as a freelance journalist and policy analyst covering science, tech and health. I have a master’s degree in Biological Natural Sciences and a master’s degree in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. Follow me on Twitter theroberthart or email me at rhartforbes.com . Effective managers in public health ensure that people have healthy housing, adequate micronutrient levels, gut microbiome health required for immune function, a healthy cortisol-melatonin rhythm to prevent chronic disease, infectious diseases and mental illness. . No long term effects of experimental shots.. jury’s still out.
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