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The Coronavirus Has Claimed 2.5 Million Years of Potential Life in the U.S., Study Finds – The New York Times
A Harvard researcher added up the number of years that Americans who died from Covid-19 might have lived had they reached a typical life expectancy.
Still, life-years is only one metric by which to measure loss, said Ayesha Mahmud, a health demographer and epidemiologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the analysis. Dr. Mahmud stressed the importance of not undervaluing the lives of older people simply because they might have fewer potential years left a mind-set that can disadvantage older populations and minimize their disease burden.
Severalotherresearchers have published similar observations on the number…
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