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Originally Posted by jyl
Everyone will die, these folks would have died years later.
Median age of US Covid deaths is about 74 y/o. Life expectancy at 74 is about 12 years.
200,000 x 12 = 2,400,000 years of life lost to Covid in the US so far.
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That is not how you calculate it. If you use median age of death, you need to use median age for life. Otherwise you are mixing apples and oranges.
78.6 is the Median life expectancy in the USA.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm