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U.S. Life Expectancy Fell By 1.5 Years In 2020, The Biggest Drop Since WW II:
Life expectancy in the United States declined by a year and a half in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says the coronavirus is largely to blame.
COVID-19 contributed to 74% of the decline in life expectancy from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.3 years in 2020, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
It was the largest one-year decline since World War II, when life expectancy dropped by 2.9 years between 1942 and 1943. Hispanic and Black communities saw the biggest declines.
[...] "The range of factors that play into this include income inequality, the social safety net, as well as racial inequality and access to health care," Curtis said.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday July 21 2021, @05:15PM (15 children)
Excess deaths in the U.S. - it's like a bad flu season, but worse:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/14/us/covid-19-death-toll.html [nytimes.com]
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(Score: 3, Informative) by slinches on Wednesday July 21 2021, @05:33PM (7 children)
The CDC is still tracking it here:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm [cdc.gov]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday July 21 2021, @06:12PM (6 children)
Weekly counts of deaths by age group is a great one. Are the declining deaths in the older age groups in 2021 because so many died last year, or because of generally safer behavior post pandemic?
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(Score: 2) by slinches on Wednesday July 21 2021, @06:37PM (3 children)
Yeah, that really illustrates the non-uniformity of risk across age groups. The effect on deaths for those under 45 is almost undetectable with massive spikes over the already higher base rates in older groups.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday July 21 2021, @07:54PM (2 children)
The number of deaths 25-45 is still low, but percentage wise it has increased significantly. In other words, people in that age group were about twice as likely to die as normal during 2021...
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(Score: 2) by slinches on Wednesday July 21 2021, @08:17PM (1 child)
True, but it seems to me that the data suggests most of the rise in the 25-45 range is likely not directly due to covid. The increase doesn't correlate with the spikes in cases for each wave. Rather, it's more of a uniform increase in the baseline which would correlate better with the lockdown actions and changes in behavior associated with the public response to the pandemic.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday July 21 2021, @08:50PM
Yep, that seems a likely explanation... judging by the way people started driving around here I'm not surprised - very few people on the road, but the ones who were out were nutso.
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(Score: 2) by ChrisMaple on Thursday July 22 2021, @02:16AM (1 child)
Combination of factors. The grim reaper took the weakest elders in 2020. In 2021, old people are the most vaccinated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 22 2021, @04:06AM
Misread elders=editors
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Barenflimski on Wednesday July 21 2021, @06:44PM (6 children)
Where do the 80,000 drug overdoses due to lockdown's fit into this?
(Score: 5, Touché) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday July 21 2021, @06:58PM (1 child)
Right up there with AIDS deaths... a good start. /s
Oh, I forgot, since Rush L. came out as addicted now we have to acknowledge that human beings also can become addicted to drugs, not just degenerates.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @09:37PM
Oh, wait...
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday July 21 2021, @07:01PM (1 child)
The increase in overdoses was only 22,500 compared to the 12 months prior:
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-deaths-covid-19.html [cdc.gov]
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(Score: 2) by Barenflimski on Wednesday July 21 2021, @09:37PM
Interesting.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Wednesday July 21 2021, @09:52PM
Like you weren't bored in the lockdown...
(Score: 2, Troll) by fakefuck39 on Wednesday July 21 2021, @10:49PM
So the 75,000 OD deaths the year before the pandemic would not have happened in 2020, because jesus would have stopped them. The 70,000 OD deaths in 2018 would not have happened either, because orange god, father of jesus would have stopped them.
Hey sherlock holmes, the 80,000 deaths would fit into a chart from 2019. A chart that predicts 2020 deaths using the previous OD increases.
They're as much due to lockdown as the alcohol your mother drank while pregnant was due to the spanish flu.