Alaric wrote:gryffron wrote:Is covid a trend or a spike?
Longevity is about people who don't die early in the future. If covid is a spike it has no future effect. That assuming you are looking at longevity of people alive today, rather than going back sixty or seventy years and looking at how those born then will have lived.
The existence of Long COVID suggests that COVID could have long term effects which may impact on longevity for those who were infected ( and although the numbers are down because of vaccination people are still being infected and some are still being hospitalised ). Hence I think the jury is still out on the long term effects on longevity of COVID.
The worsening economic situation of the country may also have an adverse effect on future longevity even if COVID has little to no effect.