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Zanny Minton Beddoes Editor-In-Chief of The Economist Welcome to our weekly newsletter highlighting the best of The Economist’s coverage of the pandemic and its effects. Demographers are used to seeing life expectancy rise steadily over time: in the 20th century lifespans in Britain rose by roughly three years every decade. The data from 2020 buck this trend, however, because of covid-19. Researchers in Britain, Denmark and Germany found that between 2019 and 2020 life expectancy at birth dropped in all but two of the 28 countries studied. Only in Denmark and Norway, and for women in Finland, did it rise. America, which has reported the world’s highest covid-19 death toll, fared worst, with male life expectancy at birth falling by more than two years. But in many other countries, including Italy, Poland and Spain, more than one year was wiped off expected lifespans. America is recording nearly 2,000 covid-19 deaths a day, according to a seven-day average compiled by Johns Hopkins University. That is only 40% below the country’s peak in January. But the true death toll is even worse. The Economist’s excess-deaths model, which estimates the difference between the actual and the expected number of deaths recorded in a given period, suggests that America is suffering 2,800 pandemic deaths per day compared with 1,000 in all other high-income countries combined (as defined by the World Bank). Adjusting for population, the death rate is now about eight times higher in America than in the rest of the rich world. |
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American exceptionalism!
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At this point 700K Americans have died of Covid. Canada has lost 28K. If we had died at the same rate as the US it would have been 70K.
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That's because the US has so many lying politicians like Ron Johnson and so many rubes that would rather listen to dishonest suits than to the scientists.....many Americans seem to be unable or unwilling to ascertain fact from fiction.....
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  NBA PLAYOFFS New York Knicks vs Indiana Pacers .
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IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO ESTABLISH ANTI-COVID RULES FOR THE NATION AS A WHOLE SINCE THERE ARE 50 STATES EACH WITH ITS OWN RULES. ALSO, MANY PEOPLE REFUSE FORCED VACCINATION, WHICH IN MY HUMBLE OPINION IS TOTALLY JUSTIFIABLE. I AM VERY UPSET ABOUT BEING FORCED INTO VACCINATION IN ORDER TO HAVE A PASS THAT ALLOWS ME AN ALMOST NORMAL LIFE. IT IS NOT THE VACCINATION ITSELF THAT IRKS ME, IT IS THE METHODS USED, BYE BYE DEMOCRACY.
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