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
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Replying to @ikashnitsky
Tbh epis don't really do life expectancy either, it's more QALYs and/or DALYs than YLL
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Replying to @GidMK @ikashnitsky
Ok read the article, even I understand how wrong the whole thing is 

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