Scientists have proven that COVID-19 reduces life expectancy by 10 years

Coronavirus infection on average shortens life expectancy by ten years. Such data were obtained by specialists from the National Health Service of Scotland and the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. This study was published on Wellcome Open Research.

Scientists compared data on Italian patients infected with COVID-19 with the World Health Organization scale, which is designed to calculate how many years of life people lose due to illness.

According to the data obtained, men who died from coronavirus infection lost an average of 13 years of their life, the life expectancy of women decreased by 11 years.

While the media focused on the effect of coronavirus on “people with concomitant diseases,” adjustments for the number and type of diseases that are long-term in nature only slightly reduce the loss of life expectancy due to death from the virus, ”said one study David McAllister.

According to WHO experts, most likely, one should not rely on collective immunity to coronavirus. Almost five months after the start of the spread of COVID-19 around the world, scientists still cannot say with certainty that people who have had coronavirus develop immunity. According to the WHO, today at best 2-3% of the world’s population have immunity, and this is extremely small for the formation of collective immunity.