Covid Cuts Two Years Off the Life Expectancy of U.S. Men

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

(Bloomberg) -- American men lost 2.2 years of life expectancy last year because of Covid-19, the biggest decline among 29 nations in a study of the pandemic’s impact on longevity.

Deaths among working-age men contributed the most to declining lifespans in the U.S., according to research led by demographers at the U.K.’s University of Oxford. Only Denmark and Norway, who have excelled at controlling their outbreaks, avoided drops in life expectancy across both sexes, the study published Sunday in the International Journal of Epidemiology found.

Before the pandemic, life expectancy at birth had continuously increased in most countries for generations. Covid-19, though, “triggered a global mortality crisis,” the magnitude of which hasn’t been witnessed since World War II in Western Europe or the breakup of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, the researchers said.

The study is the first to use an extensive collection of demographic data from 29 countries representing most of Europe, Chile and the U.S., to examine the impact of the pandemic on life expectancy in 2020, said lead researcher Jose Manuel Aburto, the Newton International Fellow in the department of sociology at Oxford, and his co-authors. The impact of Covid-19 on lifespans may be even greater in less developed countries that weren’t included in the research.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/covid-cuts-two-years-off-the-life-expectancy-of-us-men/ar-AAOR8PW

[cilla4progress]

1. All men,

or just the culls?

[d_r]

2. Average across the population

[NurseJackie]

3. I wonder if that's because we have so MANY idiot men who've died from covid... OR...

... is it because the life expectancy number for American men was, at best, a tenuous and delicate number that could easily be toppled.

[GusBob]

4. The virus affected males more than females

I think that's a self-sustaining feature. If it kills off females there are fewer victims being born