In America and eastern Europe, covid-19 got worse in 2021
Middle-aged people accounted for the biggest losses in life expectancy
The end of the second world war was a turning-point in death rates. A new study in Nature Human Behaviour shows that among 16 countries in 1900-45, for each country-year pair in which life expectancy (le) fell there were 1.65 where it rose. By 1946-2019, this ratio grew to 3.9 to one.
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