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Not quite sure if this is what you're asking, but one study calculated years of life lost per virus death at 13 years for women and 11 for men: https://wellcom
by chimprich 6y ago
Not quite sure if this is what you're asking, but one study calculated years of life lost per virus death at 13 years for women and 11 for men:
https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75 https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75
- dr_dshiv 6y agoThat's fascinating. Because poverty lowers life span by ~ 10 years [1]. And covid economics are expected to push over 100 million children into poverty [2]. So that's a billion life years lost from economic costs versus the 10 million life years lost if 1 million die from covid. [1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)30327-9/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1... [2] https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-poverty/covid-19/#:~:text=The%20global%20socioeconomic%20crisis%20caused,as%20of%2029%20June%202020 https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-poverty/covid-19/#:~:tex....
- dr_dshiv 6y agoMore here: https://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/abs/10.1596/1813-9450-9277 https://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/abs/10.1596/1813-9450-927...