[microtherion]

> the people at risk are mostly people at the end of their life

The estimates I have seen suggest that the people dying lose, on average, 10 years of their life. That's not exactly insignificant.

[bobthemover]

10 years is the average life expectancy of a person that is between 75 and 80 years old in North America.

So on average everyone dying at that age loses 10 years of life.

75 to 80 years old is also the mean age of death from covid.

Im going to go out on a limb and say that it is likely that people on average that die from covid do not lose 10 years of life.

This does not make it less of a tragedy for the individuals involved.

[microtherion]

The study in question does adjust for long-term health conditions: https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75

[bobthemover]

Thank you. That was interesting.

I am skeptical about the methodology and the results of the paper.

It does not make sense to me, and it looks like the authors knowingly chose to increase the YLL with the choice of their data sets and how they analyzed the correlation between covid deaths and comorbidities.

I’m happy to admit that I might just not fully understand it.