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One month of the COVID-19 lockdown cut up to two years off the life expectancy of heart attack patients, a new study concluded.
The study, published this month in the European Heart Journal — Quality of Care & Clinical Outcomes, showed that many people who had heart attacks during the first month of the COVID-19 lockdown “didn’t call it in because they were told there’s more important things happening,” political commentator and comedian Russell Brand told viewers in a recent episode of “Stay Free.”
The international team of researchers analyzed data from the U.K. and Spain. They used statistical modeling to determine that the lack of medical care provided to heart attack patients likely reduced the life expectancy of those patients by an average of 18 months in the U.K. and two years in Spain when compared with pre-lockdown patients.
“If people suffering from genuine life-threatening illnesses were not getting the care they needed, what was the point of lockdown?” Brand asked…
