Medscape March 12, 2025
As the COVID-19 pandemic paralyzed much of the world in 2020-2022, 289 million people in Europe lost nearly 17 million years of life, according to a new study in PLOS Medicine.
The study distinguished years lost from the direct and indirect impacts of COVID and estimated disability-free years of lost life. Its findings reflect how the pandemic worsened socioeconomic inequalities and overburdened healthcare systems, highlighting the need to prepare policies and allocate resources to deal with future pandemics.
The research team, from the United Kingdom, Poland, Finland, and the United States, built a computational model in which people older than 35 years could switch between eight states of health, from being disease-free to combinations of cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, dementia,...
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