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- India on Monday reported 26,041 new cases and 276 fatalities, taking the cumulative caseload to 33,678,786 (299,620 active cases) and fatalities to 447,194.
- Worldwide: Over 232.6 million cases and over 4.76 million fatalities.
- Vaccination in India: 860,159,011 doses. Worldwide: Over 6.11 billion doses.
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| Covid causes biggest drop in life expectancy since WW2 |
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- A multi-country study of the impact of Covid-19 on life expectancy has shown that the pandemic has shortened life spans by the biggest margin since World War 2 that ended over 75 years back. Of the 29 countries where the study was conducted, 27 showed a drop in life expectancy, with 22 countries seeing a decline by over 6 months.
- The biggest drop of course was seen in the US, which has the highest Covid-19 death toll of nearly 7 lakh and where life expectancy for men dropped by 2.2 years in 2020 compared to 2019, according to the study conducted by the University of Oxford and published on Monday. For US women, the drop in life expectancy was 1.65 years.
- While other factors such as drug overdose, particularly among the white population and homicides, notably among the black population, also contributed, Covid-19 accounted for 74% of the drop in life expectancy, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC).
- The next highest fall in male life expectancy was in Lithuania — the study covered countries in Europe, the US and Chile — which saw a decline of 1.7 years in 2020, vis-a-vis 2019. Women in eight countries and men in 11 countries recorded a decline in life expectancy of more than a year, according to the study published in International Journal of Epidemiology.
- Explaining the significance of the fall in life expectancy, José Manuel Aburto, the study’s co-lead author said that “it took on average 5.6 years for these countries to achieve a one-year increase in life expectancy” — all of which has been wiped out by the pandemic. According to the study’s findings, the “losses in life expectancy were largely attributable to increased mortality above age 60 years and linked to official Covid-19 deaths.”
- However, there were differences in the mortality rates across the countries — for instance, while in the US the fall in life expectancy was due to increased mortality among the working age population and those under 60, in Europe the higher fatality among the 60+ years group contributed to the decline in life expectancy.
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| Here’s more on why you’re losing hair |
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- Months after recovering from Covid-19, many people are finding that their hair’s falling out in large clumps. While many think of this as hair loss, it’s actually hair shedding.
- The medical term for this type of shedding is telogen effluvium. It happens when more hair than normal enters the shedding (telogen) phase of the hair growth lifecycle at the same time. A fever or illness can force more hair into the shedding phase.
- Most people see noticeable shedding two to three months after having a fever or illness. And it can last for six to nine months before it stops.
- Another study reveals that stress hormone levels in people’s hair showed how the pandemic impacted the mental health of families. Fifty two families were followed by researchers to explore stress physiology, family functioning and mental health over the first nine months of the pandemic.
- Mothers reported less adaptive coping and more negative changes to family life in June last year when their children had poorer behavioural self-regulation and more behavioural problems, and when families had lower income, in 2019.
- More negative changes to family life predicted greater hair cortisol concentrations in children in June 2020, and more negative changes and less adaptive coping predicted worse child and mother psychosocial adjustment in December 2020. Cortisol is a stress hormone that signals to the body to curb functions that would be non-essential or harmful at such times.
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Written by: Rakesh Rai, Judhajit Basu, Sumil Sudhakaran, Tejeesh N.S. Behl
Research: Rajesh Sharma
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