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Critics of the restrictive measures say the new coronavirus was dangerous only to old and sick people, who already had little life left. However, an analysis by the NDR radio station in northern Germany shows the opposite: that many of the Kovid-19 dead could have lived a few years longer.
Men lose more than women.
With the help of statistics, it is possible to determine how many years a person who fell ill and died of Kovid-19 lost his life. In other words: how long could he have lived if he hadn’t been infected. The data shows that men could live an average of another 10.7 years, and women, another 9.3 years.
The authors of the analysis took into account the life expectancy in Germany and the average age of those who died of coronavirus, a total of 6,115 people as of April 29, according to the Robert Koch Institute. Here the differences between the different regions are impressive: if in Bremen the disease shortened the life of the average patient who died of Kovid-19 in just over 7 years, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania women could live an average of another 13.9 years. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is also the only German state in which women have lost more years of their lives than men (average 12.9 years) due to the new virus.
The calculations are modeled on a similar study by scientists at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, who studied data on Covid-19 victims in Italy and Britain. The result of their work: on average, men lost about 14 years of their lives due to illness, and women, 12 years. We have to take away 1 year of life due to the previous illnesses of the patients. It turns out that men who died of coronaviruses in Italy and Britain could live an average of another 13 years, and women, another 11 years.
And the previous illnesses?
If we take into account the factor of “previous diseases”, then, in Germany, the men who died from Kovid-19 could live an average of 9.9 years, and the women, 8.5 years. In other words, patients with other diseases dropped out significantly earlier due to the coronavirus than they could live statistically.
In Germany, people with previous illnesses, which currently account for a large proportion of deaths from coronavirus, could live for many years, said Clemens Wentner, chief physician in the department of infectious diseases at the University Hospital in the Schwabing district of Munich. “Today, people with diabetes, high blood pressure, or dementia, for example, don’t have to die earlier from these diseases,” he said.
The debate over the years that coronavirus deaths have been killed began with a statement by Tübingen Mayor Boris Palmer. He said in a television broadcast: “It may be that in Germany we are now rescuing people who would have died in half a year.” Because of this statement, Palmer was harshly criticized even by his own party, the Greens.
Author: Jan Strozzik
Germany
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