The Stolen Years
Daily Politics from the New Statesman
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🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Anoosh, Stephen and Ailbhe are joined by data journalist Ben Van De Merwe to discuss the New Statesman's exclusive research showing how many years of life the UK has lost to Covid-19.
Ailbhe is in Hartlepool where she's been following candidates on the campaign trail in a decidedly 'un-electiony' election.
And You Ask Us, who will replace Arlene Foster as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party?
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| 0:49.2 | Hi, I'm Anouche. I'm Alba. I'm Stephen. |
| 0:52.6 | On today's New Statement Podcast, we talked to Ben Van Damier from the New Statement Data Journalism Team |
| 0:58.1 | about a new project that looks into how many years of lives have been lost to COVID-19, |
| 1:03.8 | Alva reports from Hartley Pool where they'll be a bi-election next week, |
| 1:07.8 | and you ask us, who's in the running to replace Arlene Foster? |
| 1:14.9 | We're delighted to be joined on today's New Statement Podcast by Ben Van Damier, |
| 1:19.0 | a data journalist for the New Statement, who's been working on an interesting project for weeks now, |
| 1:24.3 | which has just about to be published. It's about the years lost to COVID, |
| 1:30.8 | and you've done some exclusive analysis of COVID-19 deaths in England and Wales, |
| 1:36.3 | is that right, which you've used to work out how many years each victim has lost of their lives to the disease? |
| 1:44.0 | Yeah, so we took into account the age and the gender of everyone who died in England and Wales, |
| 1:50.8 | as well as the likelihood that they had comorbidities, |
| 1:53.7 | and we found that on average people lost almost a decade of life from COVID-19, |
| 1:58.7 | and with a total years lost of around 1.35 million, |
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