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There’s plenty of fresh covid news around this week. Here’s just some of it, revealing how the pandemic just keeps on giving.
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Boys in the UK face a covid led drop in life expectancy
Apparently deaths from covid have led to a drop in life expectancy for boys born in the UK, and it’s the first time in four decades that male life expectancy in the country has fallen.
New numbers from the Office for National Statistics reveal how boys born between 2018 and 2020 will live for 79 years, compared with 79.2 years for boys born between 2015 - 2017. For women, there’s no change at 82.9 years. It’s all because the mortality rates were ‘unusually high’ in 2020, especially for men.
It doesn’t mean your baby will actually have a shorter life. As the ONS says, “To get a better estimate of this we need to consider how mortality and therefore life expectancy will improve into the future. It will be several years before we understand the impact, if any, of coronavirus on this.”
How many lives have covid vaccines saved?
Covid vaccines have prevented 123,100 deaths in England so far. Public Health England and the University of Cambridge also say about 23.9 million infections didn’t happen thanks to the vaccine rollout, and we’ve seen 230,800 fewer hospital admissions for people aged 45 and over than we otherwise would have. Right now over 89% of everyone in England aged 16 or more has had at least one dose and almost 82% of over 16s are fully vaccinated.
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