STUDY: People with coronavirus are dying 10 years earlier than they would have naturally.
The study, which is still awaiting peer review to ensure accuracy and validity, confirms what should seem obvious, but is nevertheless sobering: COVID-19 is not killing people who are already near death, rather it's claiming the lives of many people more than a decade before their time.
"YLL is a common, widely adopted public health statistic to assess the number of years lost due to premature mortality. It's used to assess resource allocation for research and health care delivery," said Dr. John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital and an ABC News contributor.
A medical specialist wearing protective gear pulls a stretcher toward an ambulance while relocating a non-transparent bag, which presumably contains a human body, outside a hospital for patients infected with the coronavirus on the outskirts of Moscow, April 20, 2020. A medical specialist wearing protective gear pulls a stretcher toward an ambulance while relocating a non-transparent bag, which presumably contains a human body, outside a hospital for patients infected with the coronavirus on the outskirts of Moscow, April 20, 2020.According to Dr.
"This paper is compelling in that it aims to provide a better understanding of the mortality impact of COVID-19," according to Brownstein."Clearly, there has been a school of thought that individuals that succumbed to COVID-19 are already seriously ill with minimal years of life left to live. This quantitative assessment clears up that misconception showing that years of life lost is over a decade.
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