How the Pandemic Shortened Life Expectancy and New Drugs on the Horizon: COVID, Quickly, Episode 40

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🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In this episode of the COVID, Quickly podcast, we talk about why we’ve had years shaved off our average collective life since 2020. Also, we talk about “mabs” and why you might want to know what they are.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Breakthroughs with Pfizer-UK, the podcast where Pfizer invites experts from across
0:06.2	the pharmaceutical industry to discuss the most pressing healthcare topics.
0:11.0	Approximately 5% of the red disease is estimated to be about 7,000 that exist.
0:17.6	Only 5% of them have treatments.
0:19.6	Because of the really small patient numbers, you can't have your giant trials that give
0:24.4	you statistical power.
0:26.4	Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.3	Hi and welcome to COVID Quickly, a scientific American podcast series.
0:44.4	This is your fast track update on the COVID pandemic.
0:47.6	We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus
0:51.9	and the disease.
0:52.8	We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means.
0:57.0	I'm Tony Lewis.
0:58.0	I'm Josh Fishman.
0:59.2	And we're scientific American senior health editors.
1:02.4	Today we're going to talk about how COVID has driven a notable decline in U.S.
1:06.7	life expectancy and some new monoclonal antibodies that could protect us from variants.
1:15.2	People in the U.S. have been living longer and longer during most of the past century.
1:19.8	Then COVID hit and all of a sudden we're going backwards.
1:23.9	Why are we losing years of our lives?
1:26.9	Life expectancy has only declined a few times in recent memory during the 1918 pandemic,
1:33.2	during World War II and during the HIV AIDS crisis.
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