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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @08:30PM (3 children)
Impossible. People are "Healthy At Every Size" and anyone who dares to suggest otherwise is clearly a bigot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @08:39PM (2 children)
I've seen some extra-healthy Americans driving around in mobility scooters. They're so healthy they can't even waddle around on their own anymore. Mmm... Big Macs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 21 2021, @09:38PM
Paid for by tax dollars... particuarly galling when they wheel up to the microphone and bitch about Obamacare.
(Score: 2) by Rich on Thursday July 22 2021, @05:55PM
When I was little, I read a story where Donald Duck and his tribe (only Uncle Sam himself would be more US-American) stumble upon a degenerate population that relied on such scooters to get around. IiRC, something with the scooters screwed up. The Ducktowners educated them to exercise and that population excitedly celebrated their freedom from the scooters.
How things have changed.