I can understand (not sympathise) when MDs don't understand what is life expectancy. When this comes from an epidemiologist it's very troubling
tl;dr: the re-tweeted piece is amusingly non-informative and is only useful as a clear example of life expectancy misunderstanding
https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1364959272124248070 …
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Ok read the article, even I understand how wrong the whole thing is

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Most people just aren't very good with big numbers tbh. After all, the term "one in a million chance" is often used to suggest something will never happen, but someone wins the Lottery almost every week
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I once told my gf that she was 1 in a million but I'm a demographer so she realized there were 300 more like her in the US and about a 1000 in China. 7 in Los Angeles. My ex-gf.
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DALY/QALY are based on life expectancy. But I agree, each level of abstraction adds to less understanding of the core mechanisms on average.
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Here is what the Robert Koch Institute did in Germany: https://www.aerzteblatt.de/archiv/217880/COVID-19-Krankheitslast-in-Deutschland-im-Jahr-2020 … Would be interested in the opinion of a demographer about the methodology (paper atm unfortunately only in German)
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