Two and a half years less of life for Americans? This is affirmed by Jean-François Delfraissy, former president of the Scientific Council in France during the health crisis. He presented his opinion on the health crisis and explained that, in his opinion, Covid-19 has marked the United States more deeply than other developed countries. He argued that “this is where the loss of lifespan is much greater. They lost 2.6 years, while for example France lost 0.3 years”.
He concedes all the same that the country has “Innovated enormously, found drugs, and to a certain extent vaccines”, in particular that of the Pfizer laboratory. Is this statement about the decline in life expectancy true? 20 minutes make the point.
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Real loss in average lifespan? Correlation with the health crisis? The former president of the Scientific Council is telling the truth. Information on the subject is published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States. In a report released on August 31, it is indicated that life expectancy at birth has decreased by 1.8 years in 2020, as well as by 0.9 years in 2021. A total decrease of 2.7 year. The document explains that this is “the largest drop in life expectancy over two years since 1921-1923”.
Jean-François Delfraissy is not making any shortcuts by putting this drop in life expectancy at birth on the back of Covid-19. The document explains it clearly: “The decline in life expectancy since 2019 is largely due to the pandemic. COVID-19 deaths contributed nearly three-quarters or 74% of the decline from 2019 to 2020 and 50% of the decline from 2020 to 2021.”
For its part, INSEE advances: “In 2020, the Covid-19 epidemic strongly affected the European continent. The number of deaths has thus increased by 11% in the European Union (EU). As a result, the rise in life expectancy, which has been going on for decades, has come to a halt. »
Life expectancy has fallen in 2020 in almost all EU countries: by almost a year for both women and men. “The decline is particularly marked in the countries most affected by the first two epidemic waves, such as Bulgaria, Belgium, Spain and Poland, where it is greater than 1.2 years for both sexes,” explains the ‘institute. France is in an intermediate position with a decrease of 0.5 years for women and 0.6 years for men. However, in Western Europe the species of life In 2021, while life expectancy increases again in 2021, unlike the United States and Eastern Europe.