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The new part is the scale at which it’s happening. If we had an addition 100M flu cases, we would expect a decrease in life expectancy. (Also, this doesn’t add
by edmundsauto 5y ago
The new part is the scale at which it’s happening. If we had an addition 100M flu cases, we would expect a decrease in life expectancy.
(Also, this doesn’t address the reality that we don’t know if long Covid is the same as with the flu. I just wanted to point out that even if we accept this premise, we would still se a decrease.)
- sanedigital 5y agoEveryone has the flu at least once in their life. Any life expectancy drop from Post Viral Syndrome is already priced in. We don’t know that COVID is any different—in absence of evidence it’s always best to assume the null case.