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Thats suprising tbh. On the face of it, its hard to believe its accurate.
We have an average age of 82 i think from the people who have died from this in sweden.
Were they suppose to on average to become 95 ?Seems off but maybe im applying it wrong or do you have a much lower average age of the dead in uk? Our normal life expectancy for 2019 should be 85 for women and 81 for men approx.
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It's an average so I guess it's also accounting for the sub 82 year old population that are also dying from it... I would expect our mortality rate to be higher for 60+ but also all age groups because of poorer average health like obesity/diabetes in the UK but again, that's my impression of UK vs Sweden, not the study findings.
Anyway, I didn't write it-just found it interesting.
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Were they suppose to on average to become 95 ?
As @gu_h-àrd_gruber_an_cult has pointed out, it's not quite how the averaging works, but at the same time: that's not as unreasonable as you make it sound. Swedish overall life expectancy is 'just' about 82 years, true. But that's at birth. If you are already 82, the expected number of years to your death hasn't dropped to 0.
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SwissChap
Interesting study that has found the average loss of life is 14yrs for men and 12 for women. Has implications for the idea that "they would have died sooner or later" regarding lockdown and "taking it on the chin".
https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75