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"The results of this study are very disturbing," says Dr. Steven Woolf, a professor of population health and health equity at Virginia Commonwealth University. "This shows that U.S. life expectancy in 2021 was even lower than in 2020," he says.
Other high-income countries have seen a rebound in life expectancy, which Woolf says makes the U.S. results "all the more tragic."
Woolf attributes the drop in life expectancy for white Americans as a reflection of attitudes in some parts of the country to vaccines and pandemic control measures, and to the fact that the U.S. has lagged for years in making improvements in healthcare, and that the gap has been growing for decades.
"A lot of much poorer countries do much better than us in life expectancy," says John Haaga, a retired division director of the National Institute on Aging. "It's not genetics, it's that we have been falling behind for 50 years."
"The results of this study are very disturbing," says Dr. Steven Woolf, a professor of population health and health equity at Virginia Commonwealth University. "This shows that U.S. life expectancy in 2021 was even lower than in 2020," he says.
Other high-income countries have seen a rebound in life expectancy, which Woolf says makes the U.S. results "all the more tragic."
Woolf attributes the drop in life expectancy for white Americans as a reflection of attitudes in some parts of the country to vaccines and pandemic control measures, and to the fact that the U.S. has lagged for years in making improvements in healthcare, and that the gap has been growing for decades.
"A lot of much poorer countries do much better than us in life expectancy," says John Haaga, a retired division director of the National Institute on Aging. "It's not genetics, it's that we have been falling behind for 50 years."
It's about personal responsibility and taking care of yourself. As if government helps.
We had something called the pandemic which has driven most of the decline in life expectancy in America. As well as a rise in accidental deaths and drug overdoses. The countries that didn't fall for fauci the liar, did better. The high obesity rates is another huge factor.
You keep falling for the same garbage from the same ones.
You keep falling for the same garbage from the same ones. Take out homicides and America has one of the longest life expectancies in the world.
You're right, thank you for reminding me. We also have the problem of out of control gun violence that isn't matched anywhere else in the world that also contributes to the lower life expectancy in America. Thanks for making this point.
And a lack of access to affordable healthcare, something that is not a problem in the rest of the world.
Nonsense. That doesn’t even make sense. The wealthy have access to all the health care they want and yet their left expectancy is going down? It doesn’t have anything to do with access to healthcare or quality of care. The US has some of the best in the world albeit among the most expensive as well. The entire article is just the left trying to twist the facts and put a spin on things. We need beg government to save the day.
Let me make it simple. Who are likely to have the most wealth? Older people. Who were most likely to die from covid? Older people. That’s the answer to why life expectancy has gone down.
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