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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

I got the flu shot before Christmas, and it kicked my ass for 3 days. Glad I got it since the alternative sounds nasty. Hope you're feeling better soon. (y)
 
NNPH is having another free flu/Covid vaccination event this Friday. Love that Bobby's getting another bird from the Silver State. Well, the northern part of it at any rate. 😊
 
CH1 said:
Need Dr @Preston to weigh in


View: https://x.com/triciadearborn/status/2031504581306495147?s=46&t=ZFoeJpONFeL00lgZvCrr2Q
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Healthy life years at birth is not life expectancy!!! Their life expectancy is much higher. And this can be a noisier metric because there is a lot of subjectivity involved as it relies on surveys and shit and not just death data. Idk the methodology to this one and I'm too lazy to look but yeah probably a lot of long covid shit going on there. But I doubt they did any follow-up on those surveys - covid often disabled people for a few months at a time and many of those symptoms eventually resolved for most. So I would expect some noise because of this, but I'd also expect some decrease in healthy years just bc of a novel virus ripping through the population.

They let it rip during a time where the disease was far more severe and immunity was minimal so it would track, I just wouldn't draw conclusions based on this data!

Source: beyond being a fake doctor, this is actually something I have some expertise on in my real life!
 
Preston said:
Healthy life years at birth is not life expectancy!!! Their life expectancy is much higher. And this can be a noisier metric because there is a lot of subjectivity involved as it relies on surveys and shit and not just death data. Idk the methodology to this one and I'm too lazy to look but yeah probably a lot of long covid shit going on there. But I doubt they did any follow-up on those surveys - covid often disabled people for a few months at a time and many of those symptoms eventually resolved for most. So I would expect some noise because of this, but I'd also expect some decrease in healthy years just bc of a novel virus ripping through the population.

They let it rip during a time where the disease was far more severe and immunity was minimal so it would track, I just wouldn't draw conclusions based on this data!
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I thought so. Thanks!
 
I took a little deeper look because my curiosity is an illness, and yeah it's nonsense. The survey question asks "for at least the past 6 months, to what extent have you been limited because of a health problem in activities people usually do? Severely limited, limited by not severely, not limited at all? A single question answered by a sample of households during a pandemic and fed into some dom-esque model that also takes life expectancy and spits out average healthy life expectancy. And then we must add that Sweden has a 50% survey non-response rate.

At 73 years old, Sweden was already an outlier before this, far beyond other countries. It's widely regarded as not a very worthwhile metric and you know this because it's never used in actuarial or insurance contexts. Objective data >>>>>
 
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