Study shows COVID-19 has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II.

News release: COVID-19 has caused the biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II – University of Oxford

Original study: Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries – International Journal of Epidemiology

Commentaries:

Life expectancy falls in 27 of 29 nations amid COVID-19 – CIDRAP

Covid has wiped out years of progress on life expectancy, finds study – The Guardian

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Commentary on Twitter

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the largest loss of life expectancy since World War II, worst among American menhttps://t.co/7eNCkwBuJA @jm_aburto @UniofOxford @OxfordDemSci @ridhikash07 @melindacmills pic.twitter.com/ckRIDD9G4m

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) September 27, 2021