Outside the US and possibly the UK it is noise; it's not news and the cause is well understood to be the flu. Fluctuations of a few months in life expectancy sh

Outside the US and possibly the UK it is noise; it's not news and the cause is well understood to be the flu. Fluctuations of a few months in life expectancy should not be a surprise in countries where it is well above 80 years. The question is why the decline didn't revert the next year in two of the 18 countries.