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: 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