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> Period life expectancy reflects the risk of death a population faced within a year. If the risk of dying in a year increases, such as from a heat wave or from
by throwawaysea 5y ago
> Period life expectancy reflects the risk of death a population faced within a year. If the risk of dying in a year increases, such as from a heat wave or from COVID-19 infection, life expectancy decreases; if the risk of dying decreases, life expectancy increases.
If I am interpreting this correctly, the study is not claiming that being infected with COVID-19 reduces life expectancy, but rather that the observed life expectancy has gone down by some amount due to fatalities attributable to COVID-19.
- csense 5y agoDoesn't any event in which people die reduce life expectancy? How is this not a simple tautology?
- 542354234235 5y agoCorrect. It is more of a demonstration of the scale of the pandemic, that it has taken years off the collective population’s life expectance, in the same way that infant mortality does in developing countries and the US.