How Covid-19 restrictions really impacted older people’s health across Europe

By Jules Dupuy, Doctorant en Economie de la santé, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)
Éric Defebvre, Maître de Conférence en Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Thomas Barnay, Full Professor in Economics, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)

The Covid-19 pandemic brought a fair deal of stress to everyone, but especially older people worldwide. Between December 2019 and March 2020, 32% of those infected were hospitalised, 2.4% developed acute illness requiring ventilation, and 1.5% – more than 50,000 people – died.

A year and a half into the outbreak, mortality rates across Europe varied significantly. While countries like Sweden and Poland reported fewer than 0.1 deaths…

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