U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline

Re:U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutiv... by nishs on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:19PM (#32671081)

The sentence you’ve quoted, from the abstract of the paper, refers to the state of knowledge before this paper was written/published.

The results section of the paper updates this knowledge. It says:

“Compared to those with first infection, those with reinfection exhibited increased risk and excess burden of all-cause mortality, hospitalization, and at least one sequela in the acute phase and the post-acute phase of the reinfection.”

“… the risk was higher in those who had two infections (HR 2.11 (2.07, 2.15); burden 234.58 (227.08, 241.92)), and highest in those with three or more infections (HR 3.00 (2.71, 3.31) …”

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Re:U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutiv... by hackerlight on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:31PM (#32671175)

Hate to be that guy, but people who are susceptible to reinfection are also probably less healthy.

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Re:U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutiv... by bee_rider on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:49PM (#32671300)

I'm pretty sure everyone is susceptible to reinfection after a while.

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Re:U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutiv... by hackerlight on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:46AM (#32673278)

Susceptibility is also a spectrum, though, which is what I meant to get at and failed to communicate clearly. Immunocompromised people are probably more susceptible than others? I don't have data on that, it's just a guess.

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Re:U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutiv... by epgui on Thursday September 01, 2022 @12:04AM (#32671829)

Affirmative. (biochemist)

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