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The Covid pandemic has slashed life expectancy in 2020 by the greatest amount since WWII, says a study published today by Oxford University. The report says the life expectancy of American men has been reduced by over 2 years. The report goes on to say that life expectancy dropped by over 6 months juxtaposed with 2019 in 22 of the 29 counties the study analysed. The study covered Europe, the US, and Chile. Overall, the study found a reduction in life expectancy in 27 of the 29 countries studied. The study suggests most of the life expectancy reductions can be […]

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So they have made this assumption based on "The study covered Europe, the US, and Chile. " which represents approx. 10% of the world. Interesting that, perhaps a study including other nations would not have produced the result they were looking ?

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2 hours ago, Thaiger said:

The report says the life expectancy of American men has been reduced by over 2 years.

Could be that they had to spend all that time in isolation with the wife, over the last year. They took the easy way out, and got the statistics to drop considerably. Did US woman life expectancy increase?

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2 minutes ago, gummy said:

So they have made this assumption based on "The study covered Europe, the US, and Chile. " which represents approx. 10% of the world. Interesting that, perhaps a study including other nations would not have produced the result they were looking ?

And it's quoted wrongly at that.

Average life expectancy is the keyword plus assuming death rates would continue as they are now.

Literally from the study:

The study defined life expectancy as the average age to which a newborn would live if current death rates continued for their whole life.

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Just now, Bob20 said:

And it's quoted wrongly at that.

Average life expectancy is the keyword plus assuming death rates would continue as they are now.

Literally from the study:

The study defined life expectancy as the average age to which a newborn would live if current death rates continued for their whole life.

So all in all then this article is totally worthless on merit perhaps ?

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12 minutes ago, gummy said:

So all in all then this article is totally worthless on merit perhaps ?

Yes, they've shown the already obvious.

 

An excerpt from the article:

'Unprecedented impact'

The UK is far from alone in seeing these large drops in life expectancy for 2020.

An analysis of 29 countries across Europe, the US and Chile, shows falls in almost all of them, often reversing years of improvements.

And the US suffered the biggest decreases, with a fall of more than two years for men, according to researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, at the University of Oxford.

The pandemic had a "very sizeable and unprecedented impact" on death rates and life expectancy, Dr Ridhi Kashyap, associate professor of social demography and one of the study's lead authors, says.

And losses of more than a year are particularly unusual: "This is something that we really don't have since World War Two for most of Western Europe - and since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in the 1990s, in Eastern Europe," Dr Kashyap says.

And in many countries, life expectancy fell even below the 2015 figure, already a bad year due to a strong flu season.

Given the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic, a widespread fall is unsurprising, co-lead author Dr Jose Manuel Aburto says.

But, he says: "What is surprising is the magnitude of the fall."

The US was particularly hard hit as Covid death rates increased in the working-age population, rather than being limited to the older population, a pattern repeated in several Eastern European countries and to some extent in Scotland, Dr Aburto says.

But females in Finland and both sexes in Denmark and Norway showed slight improvements, while losses were small in countries such as Estonia and Iceland.

Directly from the report:

Results

Life expectancy at birth declined from 2019 to 2020 in 27 out of 29 countries. Males in the USA and Lithuania experienced the largest losses in life expectancy at birth during 2020 (2.2 and 1.7 years, respectively), but reductions of more than an entire year were documented in 11 countries for males and 8 among females. Reductions were mostly attributable to increased mortality above age 60 years and to official COVID-19 deaths.

Conclusions

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered significant mortality increases in 2020 of a magnitude not witnessed since World War II in Western Europe or the breakup of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe. Females from 15 countries and males from 10 ended up with lower life expectancy at birth in 2020 than in 2015.

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3 minutes ago, Bob20 said:

But females in Finland and both sexes in Denmark and Norway showed slight improvements,

But they also top the lists for being the happiest most survey’s. It may also be a coincidence though.

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1 minute ago, AdvocatusDiaboli said:

But they also top the lists for being the happiest most survey’s. It may also be a coincidence though.

Don't mistake quality for quantity 😉

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2 hours ago, Thaiger said:

The Covid pandemic has slashed life expectancy in 2020 by the greatest amount since WWII, says a study published today by Oxford University.

Surely, that can't be.  It must be the vacccines, the scourge of man, the mark of the beast, the method in which we are chipped and magnetized, those are surely the reason...

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1 hour ago, gummy said:

So they have made this assumption based on "The study covered Europe, the US, and Chile. " which represents approx. 10% of the world. Interesting that, perhaps a study including other nations would not have produced the result they were looking ?

Quote from the report...

“We urgently call for the publication and availability of more disaggregated data to better understand the impacts of the pandemic globally”,

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