Studies Show COVID Kills People 10 Years Before Their Time

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OldArmy71
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The Wall Street Journal covers this but there's a pay wall.

The Economist has a wall too, but gives a chart.

The Daily Mail summarizes one of the two studies.


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Coronavirus is killing people more than a decade before they would have died naturally, according to a study.
Men who die of COVID-19 are losing, on average, 13 years of their lives, scientists say, while women have 11 years cut off their life expectancy.

The disease, which has hospitalised more than 100,000 people in the UK, is having a devastating impact comparable to heart disease, the scientists said.

The research was done by Public Health Scotland and experts at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.

It flies in the face of authorities' focus on the 'underlying health conditions' of most of the people dying of COVID-19.

And it goes against claims many of the victims are people who were likely to have died anyway.

Office for National Statistics data shows that most people dying in the UK are aged between 75 and 84.
The Scottish research argues that many of those could have expected years or even more than a decade more life if they hadn't caught the virus.

Even people with long-term illnesses - known as morbidities - are having their lives cut short by many years, they said.

Link to the article, published in a non-peer reviewed form.
GAC06
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And it goes against claims many of the victims are people who were likely to have died anyway.



No it doesn't. Nice journalism there.
Bruce Almighty
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I'm confused. All diseases that cause death shortens life spans. Pick a disease: Flu, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, HIV. Any study done would show the same results. I didn't read it, but it seems kinda obvious.
Jerkin_my_durkin
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More fearmongering
astros4545
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Guy gets CV in February and is healed

Dies in car accident in May

CV ended his life early
OldArmy71
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I think the article is meant to give evidence that opposes the popular opinion that those who die from COVID 19 are old and/or infirm and don't have much time left, would have died soon anyway, etc.
Bruce Almighty
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OldArmy71 said:

I think the article is meant to give evidence that opposes the popular opinion that those who die from COVID 19 are old and/or infirm and don't have much time left, would have died soon anyway, etc.
I get that, but it still seems obvious. I hope people don't really believe that everyone that dies from this was on death's door already. Sure, if you were just looking at nursing home deaths, but this has killed enough people under 70 that its going to pull the averages down.
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Bruce Almighty said:

I'm confused. All diseases that cause death shortens life spans. Pick a disease: Flu, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, HIV. Any study done would show the same results. I didn't read it, but it seems kinda obvious.

I was thinking the same thing.

So it takes 10 years off of the life of the 0.3% that it kills and lets guess it even takes 10 years off the life of another 0.3% with some kind of organ damage. If we end up with 70% of people getting it how many years does the average person lose from their life?
PerpetualLurker
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Edit: I apologize, I misread your post. NVM.
tysker
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Where is COVID noted on the life-sucking machine from the Pit of Despair?
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aggiengeorgia10 said:

More fearmongering
This is what poses as modern science. Way too much echo chamber bs to support the popular opinion in academia.
One Eyed Reveille
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tysker said:

Where is COVID noted on the life-sucking machine from the Pit of Despair?


Past 50.
Barnyard96
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My retirement plan says I will live to be 87. So Covid could take me out at 77? I will adjust my contributions and/or expected monthly expenditures.
Counterpoint
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astros4545 said:

Guy gets CV in February and is healed

Dies in car accident in May

CV ended his life early
And isn't it ironic...don't you think?
eric76
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astros4545 said:

Guy gets CV in February and is healed

Dies in car accident in May

CV ended his life early
You have quite an imagination.
Cancelled
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It's better to die 10 years too early than 10 minutes too late.
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