If you look at expected years of life lost - and the average person is ~30 - you could multiply the numbers by ~47. ~47 x 5,000 = 235k years of life (extra).

If you look at expected years of life lost - and the average person is ~30 - you could multiply the numbers by ~47. ~47 x 5,000 = 235k years of life (extra). In the US in 2020 the average age of death from Covid was ~77 [1]. People ~77 are expected to life ~10.2 years [2]. In 2020, there were ~350k Covid deaths [3]. But (very crudely) 3.5M years of life lost. This small group of 11,000 people (3%) made up 7% of years of life lost. By 2021, the average age of Covid death was ~67 - so the average person was losing ~17 years of life [1]. This is because that extra ~5,000 deaths has so much weight. [1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wvpublic.org/health-science/2021-10-26/gov-justice-warns-average-age-of-coronavirus-deaths-is-decreasing%3f_amp=true https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wvpublic.org/health-science... [2] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html [3] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm