Posted on 08/31/2022 6:42:34 AM PDT by FarCenter
The average life expectancy of Americans fell precipitously in 2020 and 2021, the sharpest two-year decline in nearly 100 years and a stark reminder of the toll exacted on the nation by the continuing coronavirus pandemic.
In 2021, the average American could expect to live until the age of 76, federal health researchers reported on Wednesday. The figure represents a loss of almost three years since 2019, when Americans could expect to live, on average, nearly 79 years.
The reduction has been particularly steep among Native Americans and Alaska Natives, the National Center for Health Statistics reported. Average life expectancy in those groups was shortened by four years in 2020 alone.
The cumulative decline since the pandemic started, more than six and a half years on average, has brought life expectancy to 65 among Native Americans and Alaska Natives — on par with the figure for all Americans in 1944.
In 2021, the shortening of life span was more pronounced among white Americans than among Black Americans, who saw greater reductions in the first year of the pandemic.
While the pandemic has driven most of the decline in life expectancy, a rise in accidental deaths and drug overdoses also contributed, as did deaths from heart disease, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, the new report found.
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When a poke kills youth. Averages go down.
Democrats are the party of death.
I have a question? Where does most of our food come from these days? You see where I’m going with this?
The lockdowns obviously had their desired effect.
No surprise there.
With the blacks in Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta etc busy shooting each other dead with great enthusiasm, life expectancy was bound to fall in the country.
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True that. Imagine how much lower life expectancy is if the calculation includes victims of Moloch worship.
Dont be silly, its the Climate Change (tm).
Where does most of our fentanyl come from?
big time. this is going to affect life expectancy numbers for a long time.
We have massive amounts of carbs in our diet, and do too little physical motion. This leads to lifestyle diseases.
BTTT.
yup.. it’s gonna kill a lot of people, not that they will ever publicly admit it.
Well, seniors are increasingly voting GOP, so the Dems are fine with this. “Make it happen.”
I’m told the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren that my 89th birthday party this November is to be called an anti-vax-celebration party...
Correct
hilarious
exactly
same here
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