COVID has destroyed 14 million years of life for Americans, Oxford study finds

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In six countries, citizens' lifespans weren't negatively impacted by the deadly coronavirus at all, a testament to their public health responses.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has taken over 14 million years of life from Americans, according to a new study from the University of Oxford in England.

In short, researchers subtracted the ages of deceased people from what their life expectancy might've been had they not died of COVID-19. By doing this, they calculated an estimate of the years of life lost for each country. COVID-19 has taken over 14 million years of life from Americans who died from the virus, according to a new study from the University of Oxford in England. In this photo, nurses and healthcare workers mourn and remember their colleagues who died in the COVID outbreak, during a demonstration outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan last year.The U.S. actually ranked fourth among the 31 countries with the highest YLL per 100,000 people.

 

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Covid hasn't destroyed lives in NZ.!!! Our government has.!!!

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