The pandemic also attacks one of the greatest achievements of the modern era: the lengthening of the average life span and the hope of a longer life. Istat documents it in its annual update on fair and sustainable well-being.
The Institute of Statistics detects an abrupt halt in life expectancy with a contraction, during 2020, of 1,2 years compared to 2019. It is one of the perverse effects of the still ongoing pandemic.
Istat explains that Covid is causing the lowering of life expectancy with the associated risk of mortality. It is no coincidence that the most affected provinces are those most devastated by the pandemic right from the start, i.e. Bergamo, Cremona and Lodi, where there is a drop in life expectancy greater than the national average and equal to 4,3 years for men and 4,5 .XNUMX years for women.
Those populations, moreover, were those who saw death up close and who immediately had to come to terms with the effect of the pandemic. In fact, the long series of military trucks that in the spring of 2020 transported the coffins of the dead from Covid from the Bergamo hospital to the cemeteries has sadly entered the collective memory of the entire country.
