The average age of death was the same from Covid as from other causes. The average person dying from Covid had 4 comorbidities. The average lifespan of people who died from Covid.was one year. Saying the average was 10 means that as many would have lived 20 as would have died within one year.
Let me explain life expectancy (LE). It's not understood by many posters. LE is the point at which half of a given population at a given starting age will have died.
LE at birth is 78 in the US. That means that 50% of children born today will live to see age 78.
As you live longer, your LE increases because you have survived illnesses and accidents that killed some of your peers over the years. The following is from the 2019 Social Security Admin Actuarial tables.
LE at 65 is 18 Male and 20.7 female.
LE at 78 is 9.5 male and 11 female.
Further, these are for the average person. Your LE is higher if you are female, white or Asian, college-educated, white-collar professional, non-smoker, not obese, or have above average income. There are online calculators that will factor in these variables and estimate your remaining life expectancy.
Now, for nursing home patients, these numbers are significantly different. I didn't look it up, but LE of a person admitted into a nursing home is less than 2 years. In fact, a very significant percentage will live less than a year, but I don't remember the number. You could look it up. At any one time, there are approximately 2 million adults in nursing homes in the US. Again, I'm doing this from memory... it's between 1.4 and 2 million, IIRC.
Incorrect. 78 is not the median, it is the average. If 50 people die at age 79 and 1 dies at age 30, the average age of death that year is 78 even though 50 out of 51 people died at an age over 78.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!