I'm sure the reasons for the fall in healthy life expectancy are complex, no doubt economic factors play a large part.
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I'm sure the reasons for the fall in healthy life expectancy are complex, no doubt economic factors play a large part.
But it's astonishing that the article only gives one brief mention in passing to #Covid19. I would have thought that 2 million people living with #LongCovid would be a pretty major contributor to lower healthy life expectancy.
There seems to be an unwritten rule that the media have to pretend that covid has gone away.
It hasn't.
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I'm sure the reasons for the fall in healthy life expectancy are complex, no doubt economic factors play a large part.
But it's astonishing that the article only gives one brief mention in passing to #Covid19. I would have thought that 2 million people living with #LongCovid would be a pretty major contributor to lower healthy life expectancy.
There seems to be an unwritten rule that the media have to pretend that covid has gone away.
It hasn't.
@statsguy It seems to be happening across multiple topics. There’s a lot of discussion around school attendance rates recently where I am, and so far I’ve seen one mention (just today, actually) of the fact that over half of missed days are either due to illness or medical appointments.
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@patrickhadfield Covid most certainly doesn't affect different countries similarly. Most European countries were far worse affected that most east Asian countries.
The UK may have been a bit worse affected than some comparator countries depending on how you measure it, though I suspect the differences between us and France, Germany etc are pretty small compared with the difference vs say Japan
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@patrickhadfield Covid most certainly doesn't affect different countries similarly. Most European countries were far worse affected that most east Asian countries.
The UK may have been a bit worse affected than some comparator countries depending on how you measure it, though I suspect the differences between us and France, Germany etc are pretty small compared with the difference vs say Japan
@patrickhadfield And yes, I'm sure austerity has been a big factor.
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