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Covid: Life expectancy still down in many countries

Life expectancy has been slow to rise again after the shock of the pandemic, according to new research.

Data on registered deaths from 31 countries shows few recovering in 2021, and many seeing further declines.

Countries that rolled out vaccines quickly, to all age groups, have generally bounced back faster.

Life expectancy in England and Wales rose slightly in 2021, while in Scotland and Northern Ireland it fell further, the researchers say.

The paper - from the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research - is an update to research from last year, which found the pandemic caused the biggest global drop in life expectancy since World War Two.

Researchers compiled data on registered deaths from 31 countries - 29 in Europe, plus Chile and the US. They found that in only four - Belgium, France, Sweden and Switzerland - has life expectancy returned to the level it was in 2019.

The situation was worse in the US and in Eastern and Central Europe, which saw further declines in 2021.

"The scale of the worsening losses, particularly in Eastern Europe, are really quite sad," says Ridhi Kashyap, professor of demography at the University of Oxford's Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, and one of the authors of the report.

The drop in life expectancy in many of these European countries has mirrored the health and mortality crisis that followed the break-up of the Soviet Union, the researchers say.

These life expectancy figures - known as "period life expectancy" - aren't a prediction of how long a child born today will live for. They show the average age a new-born would live to if today's death rates persisted for that child's entire life.

Before the pandemic, life expectancy was on a consistent upward trajectory almost everywhere. Lives were getting longer, on average, year on year.

But that changed dramatically in 2020. In England and Wales, period life expectancy dropped from 81.7 years in 2019 to 80.7 in 2020. A year later it was up only a little - to 80.9.

Period life expectancy figures for Northern Ireland and Scotland in 2021 were 80.3 and 78.5 respectively.

The UK's Office for National Statistics will publish its data on life expectancy for 2021 at the end of this year.

"Pre-pandemic life expectancy in the UK didn't compare very well with much of Western Europe," says Dr Veena Raleigh, senior fellow at UK health charity, The Kings Fund. "We were already lagging behind - we were seeing the slowest improvements in life expectancy,

"We went into this virus with a health and social care system that was overstretched - long waiting lists, and fewer beds, nurses and doctors than most Western European or high-income countries."

She cautions against reading too much into comparisons between England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as the latter nations have much smaller population sizes.

In the US the drop was even higher - falling two years in 2020 and a further two months in 2021.

What struck the researchers was the age of people dying last year. As vaccines rolled out to older age groups, excess deaths dropped among the over-80s in most countries. But under-80s started contributing more to life expectancy losses.

Where vaccines were rolled out earlier and to all age groups at the same time, life expectancy was more likely to bounce back.

Bulgaria is a striking example. It lost a year and a half on its life expectancy in 2020 and a further two years in 2021. By the end of 2021 only one in four Bulgarians were vaccinated, and only 37% of over-60s, the lowest rate in the EU.

Dr Raleigh says the regional differences between Eastern and Western Europe are particularly noteworthy. Before Covid, gaps in life expectancies between East and West were narrowing, but this study shows that the pandemic has reversed that trend.

Similarly, before the pandemic, the gap between the life expectancies of men and women was narrowing: "The pandemic has opened up that gap again."

The study, published in Nature Human Behaviour, was limited to 31 countries by the quality of data available.

"There have probably been countries that had much worse pandemics in terms of life expectancy losses but because of data inequalities in the world, we're not in a position to measure that at the moment," says Prof Kashyap.

While many hope that life expectancy will recover in 2022, Prof Kashyap says the effects of Covid are still being felt in health systems all over the world: "There are worrying signs in England and Wales of excess mortality, particularly over the summer. It hasn't been a smooth recovery."
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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

If a baby is reported as stillborn the coroner has no jurisdiction.

The Angel of Death and the now silent mandate nazi cowards approve!



A former Auschwitz inmate doctor said of Mengele:

He was capable of being so kind to the children, to have them become fond of him, to bring them sugar, to think of small details in their daily lives, and to do things we would genuinely admire ... And then, next to that, ... the crematoria smoke, and these children, tomorrow or in a half-hour, he is going to send them there. Well, that is where the anomaly lay.

Gotta love the savior called science.

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Indian vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) has said it had to dump 100 million doses of their Covid-19 vaccine after they expired.

The firm stopped producing Covishield in December last year due to low demand, CEO Adar Poonawalla said on Thursday.

SII, the world's largest vaccine maker, has been making the local version of AstraZeneca's Vaxzevria jab.

Covishield accounts for over 90% of the doses given in India.

India has administered over two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines. More than 70% of the Indian population has taken at least two doses, according to the federal health ministry.

In January 2022, India began giving boosters to healthcare and frontline workers, and those above 60 years with comorbidities. It was later expanded to all adults.

In July, free booster doses - or precaution doses as the government calls it - were provided to all adults for 75 days to mark 75 years of India's independence.

But so far, India has administered just 298 million booster doses, according to the health ministry.

"The booster vaccines have no demand as people now seem fed up with Covid," Mr Poonawala told reporters on Thursday. "Honestly, I'm also fed up. We all are."

According to Mr Poonawala, the SII had around 100 million doses of Covishield in stock. The vaccines - which have a shelf life of nine months - expired in September this year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-63324548

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Gotta love the savior called criminally abused, falsified and corrupted science.

Corrected that for you. And in that form, I even agree with your attitude.



But to equate science with Nazis is as stupid as it is malicious. And Mengele was simply a particularly vicious, psychopathic criminal, such as the Nazi regime both attracted and produced.

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How well a vaccination works and how well it protects against infection or a severe course of disease depends on many factors. These include the age of the vaccinated person and their state of health. Drugs administered at the same time can also play a role. In a new study, researchers at Oxford University have now found a further explanation for the varying strength of antibody responses - and it lies in our genes.



https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02078-6

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