Article contentIt’s one of the curiosities of the COVID-19 pandemic. Try refreshing your browser, or COVID-19 the new disease of growing old, hastening the work of anti-aging scientists Back to videoThe reasons for that seeming contradiction are not yet totally clear, but Colin Farrelly points to one likely explanation: the continent’s markedly youthful population. The average life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa is less than 62; in Canada it’s 82. “The COVID-19 pandemic is a highly fatal pandemic largely because of population aging,” notes Farrelly, a Queen’s University professor who has a new journal paper on the topic. “Our success in delaying death in late life made us vulnerable to COVID-19 mortality.”

Source: National Post February 08, 2021 11:02 UTC