The sudden outbreak of the covid-19 epidemic caused havoc all around the world. Its been over a year and the virus has still not come under control in many countries while many other countries are trying new measures and speeding up their vaccination process to slow down the virus from spreading like an eagle.
While the counties are focusing on building their economy back and speeding up the vaccination process no one is really looking at the damages that the virus has caused. We thought a vaccine could fix it but can it? Or the damage is beyond repair?
A recent study has revealed that the covid-19 pandemic also has a profound effect on human life expectancy.
Researchers at the University of Oxford have recently concluded that the average life expectancy of humans has dropped significantly since the covid-19 crisis.
The study conducted on September 27th at Oxford showed that the covid-19 pandemic has done the worst damage of all. Earlier before covid, the life expectancy was said to have risen but the virus wiped it all away just in a wave. According to scientists, the drop is the worst and there was no such drop since world war II.
The report held data from the United States, United Kingdom, Chile, and 27 European countries. The demography-wise data collection showed the men’s age gap has decreased significantly than women. The most affected country is the USA; 2.2 years of the American men have gone down. Followed by Lithuania at 1.7, Bulgaria at 1.6, Spain at 1.44, Denmark at 0.55, and so on.
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While the number of women in eleven countries decreased by one year, and few other European countries by six months.
But here too the US stands first. The life expectancy of women went down like titanic to 1.65 years which indeed is a massive drop.
Spain by 1.50, England by 0.91, and France by 0.6.
The research was based only on 29 countries and India did not have the proper data available for the research according to Dr. Kashyup one of the researching doctors.
Covid-19 did not only wreck the world economy and health system but also the life expectancy of people. Not only it has taken millions of living but is still taking different formation every few months evolving into a dangerous variant.
Whilst WHO has said if the precautions and the vaccination drive goes well covid-19 could just be a cold flu by next fall but no one knows what’s going to happen with this virus. Covid-19 has become the black death of the world.
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