[JonPreston]

COVID-19 has dropped life expectancy in Sweden by the biggest amount since 1944, as a top official warns there is 'no signs' of herd immunity

[impimp]

With PCR tests I can envision a scenario where we have millions of asymptomatic Coronavirus cases - wait... we have that right now.

[exDemMom]

I wonder what the life expectancy drop is in the US. Our disease and death rates account for ~1/5 of all cases; that has to have a significant impact.

[bagster]

COVID-19 has dropped life expectancy in Sweden by the biggest amount since 1944, as a top official warns there is 'no signs' of herd immunity.

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Prescot.

[T. P. Pole]

This is an interesting line from that article - “For men, it is expected to drop from 81.3 to 80.8 years, which roughly offsets the large increase in life expectancy recorded in 2019.”

I’m interested in what that’s about. A larger than normal increase last year, followed by a return to normal this year?

[Persevero]

Is it just deaths from Covid that are dropping life expectancy?

Or is it also deaths of despair - direct suicide, indirect though drug and alcohol abuse and overdose, failure to thrive for our shut in elderly?

Hard to quantify but still it is real.