Study finds #COVID-19 had greater impact on life expectancy than previously believed
The research, which presents updated estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021, provides the most comprehensive look at the #pandemic's toll on human health to date, indicating that global #lifeexpectancy dropped by 1.6 years from 2019 to 2021, a sharp reversal from past increases.
A new challenge competition from XPrize calls for proactive and accessible health care solutions for improving the quality of life among older people worldwide.
On 07Nov2023 CDC finally published final life expectancy report for 2021. They made sure to extend their graph back to 1900 to downplay the effect of COVID 😄 fucking propaganda. Still no provisional data for 2022.
"The level of suffering caused by #COVID19 has been completely normalized even though such a thing was unthinkable back in 2019. Populations are largely unaware of the long-term harms the #virus is causing to those infected, of the burden on healthcare, increased #disability, #mortality and reduced #lifeExpectancy. Once a few even deadlier outbreaks have been shrugged off, even more unimaginable losses will eventually enter the “acceptable” category."
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While modern life expectancies are much higher than those in the Middle Ages and earlier, adults in the Middle Ages did not die in their 30s or 40s on average. That was the life expectancy at birth, which was skewed by high infant and adolescent mortality. The life expectancy among adults was much higher; a 21-year-old man in medieval England, for example, could expect to live to the age of 64.
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Lauren Weber, Dan Diamond, and Dan Keating look at three contiguous counties, one in Ohio, one in Pennsylvania, one in New York, to figure out why some areas of the US have higher rates of early death than others do.
Their conclusion: "Red-state politics are shaving years off American lives," because Republican-controlled areas cut much-needed public health initiatives.
Life expectancy in the US has long been worse than in other wealthy countries, but now it is getting even worse. And that is largely because of falling life expectancy among those without a college education.