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In public health, mortality and morbidity are often expressed in units of DALY (Disability-adjusted life years) or QALY (Quality-adjusted life years).

Because COVID deaths are being predominantly borne by the old, and deaths due to war are predominantly borne by the young, I would be very curious to see the equivalent charts in DALYs.

In other words, not "what is the number deaths" but "what is the expected number of healthy years of life lost."

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QALY (quality-adjusted ...) is a similar term used in many contexts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year

DALY and QALY compared:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29431169/

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...

Thanks for mentioning DALY. It seems like this would be a much better metric than counting deaths. I've been looking for regularly updated charts using YLL (years of life lost), but DALY seems even better. It's disappointing that DALY isn't the most commonly shared/referenced chart. I need to find COVID DALY numbers compared to other causes of death to better understand this.

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