Post Covid pandemic falls in UK life expectancy

woolly_wombat

For those unable to link to the FT article directly, there’s a link to it here that should work:

https://twitter.com/JosephineCumbo/status/1643144711484370944

michaels

WE are still seeing approx 400 deaths per week from covid and of order 1000 excess deaths per week compared to pre-covid (even though the comparison period now includes two covid impacted (ie higher than normal deaths years).  For example this winter we saw a peak pretty much as big as the covid peaks without having lots of covid deaths.

Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

mark_cycling00

Only the FT could make a positive headline out of people dying earlier...

Not as bad as their "Dramatic change in bond yields" Headline on 9/11..

woolly_wombat

michaels said:

WE are still seeing approx 400 deaths per week from covid and of order 1000 excess deaths per week compared to pre-covid (even though the comparison period now includes two covid impacted (ie higher than normal deaths years).  For example this winter we saw a peak pretty much as big as the covid peaks without having lots of covid deaths.

Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

Yes, but isn’t it interesting that life expectancy was already falling in 2017-18, prior to the Covid pandemic?

All explained in the article linked to above.

michaels

woolly_wombat said:

michaels said:

WE are still seeing approx 400 deaths per week from covid and of order 1000 excess deaths per week compared to pre-covid (even though the comparison period now includes two covid impacted (ie higher than normal deaths years).  For example this winter we saw a peak pretty much as big as the covid peaks without having lots of covid deaths.

Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

Yes, but isn’t it interesting that life expectancy was already falling in 2017-18, prior to the Covid pandemic?

All explained in the article linked to above.

Falling or just no longer increasing or not as quickly as had previously been anticipated?

woolly_wombat

michaels said:

Falling or just no longer increasing or not as quickly as had previously been anticipated?

Fell by around 7 months in 2017-18, then a further 6 months in the second half of 2022 apparently.

SouthCoastBoy

Life expectancy is an interesting one, I would be more interested in quality of life rather than length of life, no desire to end up in a home like 75% of my grandparents or 50% of my parents

woolly_wombat

SouthCoastBoy said:

Life expectancy is an interesting one, I would be more interested in quality of life rather than length of life, no desire to end up in a home like 75% of my grandparents or 50% of my parents

A very good point, and probably why some medics say they would opt for no treatment in certain instances.

Albermarle

With the time it currently takes to get an NHS outpatients appointment/ diagnostics tests/operations etc . this will have an ongoing effect on life expectancy.