Life expectancyInequalityAge at deathSARS-CoV-2COVID-19PandemicGiniQuantifying excess deaths and their impact on life expectancy at birth (e0) provide a more comprehensive understanding of the burden of coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) on mortality. The study aims to comprehend the ...
a new government report finds that average life expectancy in the United States took a drastic plunge during the first half of 2020, particularly among Black and Hispanic people.
Did COVID impact life expectancy? The novel coronavirus could end up impacting life expectancies by anywhere between 1 and 9 years in various parts of the world according to a study on the long-term population-level impact of the virus. In all prevalence scenarios, if theCOVID-19infection pr...
WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Elizabeth Arias, PhD, Director, US Life Tables Program, National Center for Health Statistics, about the impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy data.
The devastating impact ofCOVID-19on the health and well-being of the United States is reflected in a startling new statistic. TheCenters for Disease Control and Preventionnow says that coronavirus-related deaths caused the average life expectancy of Americans to drop a full year during the first...
Although the report lays bare the impact that the virus has had on life expectancy, the team behind the report said other factors also played a role, including an increase in deaths due to diabetes and accidental injuries, such as drug overdoses. Diabetes deaths topped 100,000 for the first...
it would translate into three to nine years of life lost in high life-expectancy regions. In less developed regions, the impact is smaller given that there is already lower survival at older ages," said study leader Guillaume Marois, a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Syste...
"COVID has taken a terrible toll on the health and well-being of our city's residents, particularly those who are Black and Latinx," Lightfoot said in astatement. "Without formally acknowledging this detrimental impact, and its roots in structural racism, we will never be able to move ...
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that on a population level, a lot more people are dying prematurely than they really should be,” Robert Anderson, chief of mortality statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics, toldThe New York Times. “This signals a huge impact on the population in terms of ...