Covid-19: Life expectancy is down but what does this mean?
Life expectancy for men has fallen because of the Covid pandemic – but what will be the long-term effect? …
“Essentially what this means is you’ve lost a large section of your more frail population, then you have a healthier surviving population and you would expect mathematically there to be fewer deaths in the period that follows,” Stuart McDonald, co-founder of the Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group, says.