Posted on 09/21/2021 8:25:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The coronavirus pandemic has cut U.S. life expectancy by more than 9 million years from March 2020 to March of this year, according to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine published on Monday, which doesn't take into account the latest wave of cases from the delta variant.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has robbed Americans of 9 million birthdays that would otherwise have been celebrated," Hanke Heun-Johnson, one of the authors of the study, told Axios.
Per capita, Black and Hispanic Americans lost almost twice as many years of life as white Americans.
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Thank you. It’s been a really rough road for our family. I used to think we were a solid family, always pulling together in the roughest of times. CoVid has changed that up. I am sad and mad and disheartened about it, but it feels like there is little I can do but to keep on living my life. I choose to live while the others stay “secure” in their bubbles. I try not to think about it so much. I know God will use this to strengthen us somehow, but I just don’t see it right now. Pray for us, pray for our country.
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