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More than 2.5 million years of life have been lost in the US due to the covid-19 pandemic, according to a study | CNN

2020-10-21T12:57:51.318Z


More than 2.5 million years of life have been lost in the United States due to the coronavirus and, on average, each person with a death associated with Covid-19 lost just over 13 years, according to a preliminary study. | Health | CNN


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More than 2.5 million years of life have been lost in the United States due to the coronavirus and, on average, each person with a death associated with Covid-19 lost just over 13 years, according to a preliminary study published Tuesday on MedRxiv.

MedRxiv is a preprint server, which means that the study has not been peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal.


"In this study I have tried to quantify the extension of life lost so far in this pandemic until October 3, 2020, where data for the age and sex distribution of more than 194,000 deaths associated with covid-19 were available", says the study, written by Stephen Elledge, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

"These calculations reveal a profound loss of life measured in person-years of nearly 2.5 million person-years as of early October 2020 in the United States."

Elledge found that a total of 2,572,102 person-years had been lost due to 194,087 deaths.

When broken down by gender, men lost 1,461,662 years of life out of 104,896 deaths and women lost 1,110,440 years out of 89,191 deaths.

Each person lost, on average, 13.25 people / year due to death associated with covid-19.

Men lost slightly more years of life at 13.93 compared to women who lost 12.45.

It also found that "a significant proportion of deaths due to covid-19 occur in people in their 40s, 50s and 60s who had tens of years of expected life ahead of them."

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To calculate the number of years of life lost, Elledge used data from the Social Security Administration to analyze normal life expectancies and data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on deaths from covid- 19 per age group of 10 years.

The study reaches similar conclusions to others that looked at person / years lost, he says, although previous studies project slightly fewer person / years lost to death, which could have to do with the method of analysis or the fact that that were carried out before the pandemic.

Elledge wrote that his research has potential sources of error, such as the distribution of deaths over 10-year periods provided by the CDC, the lack of ethnic distribution in the fatality data, and the effect of comorbidities on the life expectancy of women. deaths from covid-19.

Source: cnnespanol

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