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How Long Can We Live?
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How Long Can We Live?
New research is intensifying the debate with profound implications for the future of the planet.
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In 1990, not long after Jean-Marie Robine and Michel Allard began conducting a nationwide study of French centenarians, one of their software programs spat out an error message. An individual in the study was marked as 115 years old, a number outside the program’s range of acceptable age values. They called their collaborators in Arles, where the subject lived, and asked them to double-check the information they had provided, recalls Allard, who was then the director of the IPSEN Foundation, a nonprofit rese
Berkeley study finds vaccinating elders saves most lives, most years
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UC Berkeley researchers measured vaccine efficacy by analyzing whether vaccinating elders would save the most years of life.
A UC Berkeley study published Thursday found that vaccinating elders saves both the most lives and the most years of life.
Vaccine efficacy can be measured in many ways, including the total number of lives saved and total years saved. The study sought to analyze whether vaccinating elders would also save the most years of life.
“It was well known that giving it to old people would save the most lives, but there were questions that it wouldn’t save the most use of future life,” said lead researcher and campus demography professor Joshua Goldstein. “We wanted to see if there was a conflict there.”
Challenging the idea that older people with shorter life expectancies should rank lower in coronavirus immunization efforts, new UC Berkeley research shows that giving vaccine priority to those most at risk of dying from COVID-19 will save the maximum number of lives, and their potential or future years of life.