Column: America’s decline in life expectancy speaks volumes about our problems
1 year, 9 months ago

Column: America’s decline in life expectancy speaks volumes about our problems

LA Times  

U.S. average life expectancies are lowest in the Southeast, highest on the West Coast and the Northeast. “COVID-19 has erased two decades of life expectancy growth in the U.S., whereas the average life expectancy for comparable countries has decreased only marginally, to 2018 levels,” the Health System Tracker found. “America is seeing the greatest gap in life expectancy across regions in the last 40 years,” Ney says. According to 2020 death records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the longevity gulf is now 20 years wide — ranging from an average life expectancy from birth of 66.8 years in Oglala Lakota County, S.D., to 86.8 years in Summit County, Colo. America’s life expectancy is falling behind its international peers, including all high-income countries and Japan. We’ve written often about the folly of trying to address Social Security’s fiscal imbalance by raising the retirement age, a “reform” based on the assumption that average life expectancy is a universal constant.

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US deaths are down and life expectancy is up, but improvements are slowing
3 weeks ago

US deaths are down and life expectancy is up, but improvements are slowing

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy jumped last year, and preliminary data suggests there may be another — much smaller — improvement this year. Death rates fell last year for almost all leading causes, notably COVID-19, heart disease and drug overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday. That means that life expectancy for 2024 …

Americans spend more years sick than the rest of the world, study finds — and women have it worse
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Americans spend more years sick than the rest of the world, study finds — and women have it worse

Salon  

Americans spend more time on average living with diseases compared to people in other countries, according to a recent study from the American Medical Association. To determine this, the authors studied what’s known as the healthspan-lifespan gap, a ratio of the number of years lived with disease or disability, as opposed to simply one’s overall lifespan. Using data from all …

Life expectancy in U.S. could stall by 2050 because America is getting too fat, physicians warn
1 month ago

Life expectancy in U.S. could stall by 2050 because America is getting too fat, physicians warn

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Americans’ life expectancy is expected to stall by 2050 because of …

Americans' life expectancy to crash to 66th in the world... lower than many sub-Saharan African nations
1 month ago

Americans' life expectancy to crash to 66th in the world... lower than many sub-Saharan African nations

Daily Mail  

US life expectancy is projected to sink to 66th in the world in the coming decades, according to a major new study. Dr Stein Emil Vollset, who led the new study, said: ‘The rapid decline of the US in global rankings from 2022 to 2050 rings the alarm for immediate action.’ Nationwide, America has a life expectancy of 77.5 years, …

US life expectancy forecasted to stall by 2050
1 month ago

US life expectancy forecasted to stall by 2050

CNN  

CNN — The United States is expected to make only minor gains in life expectancy over the next few decades, and this minimal improvement highlights an “alarming trajectory of health challenges” facing the country, researchers say. Life expectancy in the US is expected to increase from 78.3 years in 2022 to 80.4 years in 2050, according to forecasting models from …

Average Dutch 65-year-old can look forward to another 21 years of life
2 months ago

Average Dutch 65-year-old can look forward to another 21 years of life

NL Times  

People who turn 65 in 2030 will have an average of 20.96 years left to live, according to CBS. Life expectancy in 2030 falls slightly in the latest forecast compared to the previous forecast, in which it was set at exactly 21 years. Due to the higher mortality rate during the coronavirus pandemic, the life expectancy of 65-year-olds fell to …

Age limit: Have we hit a ceiling for longevity? Not so fast, some experts say
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Age limit: Have we hit a ceiling for longevity? Not so fast, some experts say

Salon  

For as long as humans have been aware of their mortality, the question of whether a limit exists to the maximum age we can reach has followed. However, a new study published this week in Nature Aging says that this upward trend is curbing and boldly states that “humanity’s battle for a long life has largely been accomplished.” Using data …

The US states where people die younger than in Palestine and Syria
4 months, 2 weeks ago

The US states where people die younger than in Palestine and Syria

Daily Mail  

A new map based on official data lays bare Americans' shockingly low life expectancy. Rounding out the bottom five US states for life expectancy are Louisiana — 72.2 years — and Kentucky — 72.3 years. Even taking into account the recent increase in life expectancy, nations like Japan, France, and Sweden rank far higher Experts blame expensive healthcare, people without …

See COVID’s toll on California’s life expectancy in new CDC longevity report
4 months, 2 weeks ago

See COVID’s toll on California’s life expectancy in new CDC longevity report

LA Times  

Pallbearers carry the casket of a person who died of COVID-19 in San Diego in February 2021. In 2019, before the coronavirus reached U.S. shores, the state’s overall life expectancy at birth was 80.9 years, with an expected life span of 78.4 years for men and 83.3 years for women. Then deaths during the first year of the pandemic shaved …

Opinion: The decline in American life expectancy harms more than our health
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: The decline in American life expectancy harms more than our health

LA Times  

A bicycle rider pedals across a bridge in Pacoima, which explored revitalizing public space as one way to tackle high rates of health problems. Policymakers acknowledged the link between the economy and public health at the height of the pandemic, providing federal relief programs such as cash assistance and paid sick leave designed to keep the nation’s workforce and economy …

COVID-19 second-leading cause of death globally in 2021; slashed life expectancy: Lancet study
9 months ago

COVID-19 second-leading cause of death globally in 2021; slashed life expectancy: Lancet study

The Hindu  

COVID-19 replaced stroke to become the second-leading cause of death globally in 2021, causing 94 deaths per one lakh population and slashing life expectancy by 1.6 years, an international research published in The Lancet journal has found. “Disrupting more than three decades of consistent improvements in life expectancy and deaths, COVID-19 reversed this long-standing progress to emerge as “one of …

Global life expectancy up 6.2 years since 1990: Study
9 months ago

Global life expectancy up 6.2 years since 1990: Study

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: On average, people across the world are living more than six years longer in 2021 than what they did in 1990, according to a new study published in The Lancet on Thursday, which also showed that life expectancy in India has increased by nearly eight years in the past three decades. Despite the challenges presented by the pandemic, …

Global life expectancy fell by 1.6 years during first two years of COVID-19 pandemic but Australia bucked the trend, study finds
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Global life expectancy fell by 1.6 years during first two years of COVID-19 pandemic but Australia bucked the trend, study finds

ABC  

In short: A new study has found that 84 per cent of countries around the globe experienced a drop in life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2019 to 2021. A new study has found global life expectancy fell by 1.6 years during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Australia was among the few countries to buck …

US life expectancy rose by more than a year, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level
1 year, 1 month ago

US life expectancy rose by more than a year, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level

Firstpost  

For decades, US life expectancy rose a little nearly every year. Life expectancy in the United States increased last year by more than a year, primarily due to the diminishing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, despite the significant rise, the current life expectancy in the US has only …

US life expectancy rose last year, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level
1 year, 1 month ago

US life expectancy rose last year, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn’t close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. But even with the large increase, U.S. life expectancy is only back to 77 years, 6 months — about what it was two decades ago. For decades, U.S. life expectancy rose a …

US life expectancy rose last year, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level
1 year, 1 month ago

US life expectancy rose last year, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy U.S. life expectancy rose last …

Hundreds of millions of life years lost to COVID-19 pandemic, according to WHO
1 year, 7 months ago

Hundreds of millions of life years lost to COVID-19 pandemic, according to WHO

Firstpost  

According to the World Health Organisation, about 337 million life years were lost in the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, when millions of people died prematurely. While the WHO officially registered 5.4 million Covid deaths in 2020 and 2021, its excess mortality data shows around 14.9 million people actually likely died due to the crisis over that period. …

Covid-19 dropped to 4th leading cause of death in US in 2022: Report
1 year, 8 months ago

Covid-19 dropped to 4th leading cause of death in US in 2022: Report

Hindustan Times  

US deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the nation's No. Read here: Exiled billionaire's assets worth $280 million seized by Ukraine, ‘aided Russia’ COVID-19 deaths trailed those caused by heart disease, cancer and injuries such as drug overdoses, motor vehicle fatalities and shootings. The death rates for heart disease and cancer increased during the pandemic, the CDC said. …

Declining U.S. life expectancy fell further in 2021 due to COVID and drug overdoses
2 years ago

Declining U.S. life expectancy fell further in 2021 due to COVID and drug overdoses

LA Times  

Deb Walker, of Chester, Vt., visits the grave of her daughter Brooke Goodwin, who died in March 2021 after a drug overdose. The numbers, released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mark the second consecutive year of decline in average life expectancy, a streak that hasn’t happened in more than a century. The year 2021 saw 106,699 …

Covid pandemic led to prolonged decline in global life expectancy, suggests study
2 years, 2 months ago

Covid pandemic led to prolonged decline in global life expectancy, suggests study

Firstpost  

London: COVID-19 has caused a prolonged decline in life expectancy levels, leading to global mortality changes unprecedented in the last 70 years, according to a study. Previous global epidemics have seen fairly rapid “bounce backs” to life expectancy levels, the researchers said. This East-West divide in life expectancy during COVID-19 generally reflects bigger losses in countries which had lower pre-pandemic …

The steep decline in US life expectancy raises questions most politicians want to avoid
2 years, 4 months ago

The steep decline in US life expectancy raises questions most politicians want to avoid

Salon  

The powers that be really want to turn the page on the COVID pandemic, even though the United States is still suffering hundreds of deaths a day and thousands of new hospitalizations. "Prior to the COVID pandemic, we'd already seen a drop in life expectancy due to 'diseases of despair' — drug and alcohol overdose, complications of drug and alcohol …

U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Again; CDC Officials Blame Coronavirus
2 years, 4 months ago

U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Again; CDC Officials Blame Coronavirus

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, according to a government report being released Wednesday. But it’s likely the declines in 2020 and 2021 will stand as the first two consecutive years of declining life expectancy in the U.S. since the early 1960s, …

US life expectancy plunged again in 2021, down nearly a year
2 years, 4 months ago

US life expectancy plunged again in 2021, down nearly a year

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, according to a government report being released Wednesday. But it’s likely the declines in 2020 and 2021 will stand as the first two consecutive years of declining life expectancy in the U.S. since the early 1960s, CDC officials said. …

US life expectancy plunged again in 2021, down nearly a year: CDC
2 years, 4 months ago

US life expectancy plunged again in 2021, down nearly a year: CDC

Al Jazeera  

COVID-19 blamed for about half of life expectancy decline followed by heart disease, drug overdoses, suicide. Life expectancy fell in the United States in 2021 for the second year in a row, driven by COVID-19 deaths, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nearly one-year decline in life expectancy from 2020 to 76.1 …

WHO Africa sees 10-year growth in healthy life expectancy
2 years, 5 months ago

WHO Africa sees 10-year growth in healthy life expectancy

LA Times  

Residents of a village in wait to have their children become test subjects for the world’s first vaccine against malaria in 2019. The healthy life expectancy in the region “rose by almost 10 years to stand at 56 years in 2019 compared with 46 years in the year 2000,” Dr. Lindiwe Makubalo, assistant regional Director for WHO Africa, said at …

US deaths from COVID hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years in
2 years, 7 months ago

US deaths from COVID hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years in

Associated Press  

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 1 million on Monday, a once-unimaginable figure that only hints at the multitudes of loved ones and friends staggered by grief and frustration. “It is hard to imagine a million people plucked from this earth,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, who leads a new pandemic center at the Brown University School of Public Health in …

COVID-19, overdoses pushed US to highest death total ever
2 years, 8 months ago

COVID-19, overdoses pushed US to highest death total ever

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — 2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history, and new data and research are offering more insights into how it got that bad. Joseph Friedman, a UCLA researcher who was the paper’s lead author, called the spike “unprecedented.” Those teen overdose deaths were only around 1% of the U.S. total. Those national death trends affect life expectancy …

Covid-19 slashed life expectancy by most since World War II: Oxford study
3 years, 3 months ago

Covid-19 slashed life expectancy by most since World War II: Oxford study

Hindustan Times  

The coronavirus disease pandemic reduced life expectancy last year by the largest amount since World War II, news agency Reuters reported citing a study by Oxford University. The study showed that life expectancy dropped by more than six months compared with 2019 in 22 countries and reductions in life expectancy were seen in 27 countries out of the 29, including …

Covid-19 pandemic triggers biggest fall in life expectancy since World War 2: Study
3 years, 3 months ago

Covid-19 pandemic triggers biggest fall in life expectancy since World War 2: Study

India Today  

The Covid-19 pandemic brought life expectancy down by the largest amount since World War II, as per a study published by Oxford University on Monday. In 22 of the 29 countries examined in the study, life expectancy was more than six months lower than what it was in 2019. According to the Oxford University study, most life expectancy reductions in …

A steep drop in American life expectancy is only partly because of the pandemic
3 years, 5 months ago

A steep drop in American life expectancy is only partly because of the pandemic

Salon  

Between 1942 and 1943, the average life expectancy of an American fell by 2.9 years. In general, American life expectancy has risen or remained stagnant every year for the past fifty years, until around 2014 when it tapered off and dipped very slightly. Yet in 2020, the United States is facing a far more dramatic drop in life expectancy, attributable …

US life expectancy falls by more than a year due to Covid-19 pandemic, CDC study says
3 years, 5 months ago

US life expectancy falls by more than a year due to Covid-19 pandemic, CDC study says

CNN  

CNN — Life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020 primarily due to increases in death due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to early data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. life expectancy at birth for 2020, based on nearly final data, was 77.3 years, the lowest it has …

US life expectancy dropped 1.5 years in 2020
3 years, 5 months ago

US life expectancy dropped 1.5 years in 2020

Al Jazeera  

Black and Hispanic Americans saw a more dramatic plunge, with life expectancy dropping by three years. Overall life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, health officials have said – but the decrease for Black Americans and Hispanic Americans was even worse, at three years. …

Can pandemics be securitised?
3 years, 5 months ago

Can pandemics be securitised?

Hindustan Times  

By the time the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 outbreak as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the virus had already reached every continent except Antarctica. The Spanish Flu, which happened a century ago in 1918, reduced life expectancy at birth in the United States by 11.8 years. Preliminary data released by the agency in February 2021 reveals that …

U.S. life expectancy drop during pandemic shows ‘price people pay for systemic racism’
3 years, 6 months ago

U.S. life expectancy drop during pandemic shows ‘price people pay for systemic racism’

LA Times  

Workers at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles prepare to move the body of a COVID-19 victim to the hospital’s morgue. If we had to roll up our sleeves before, now we have to fundamentally start over.” In an editorial published alongside the new research, UC Berkeley demographer Magali Barbieri wrote that the pandemic has “operated as a …

US life expectancy fell by more than a year during pandemic – and lags behind other high-income nations, studies suggest
3 years, 6 months ago

US life expectancy fell by more than a year during pandemic – and lags behind other high-income nations, studies suggest

CNN  

CNN — Two new studies reveal just how much of a toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken on life expectancy in the United States, which lags behind other high-income nations. “The change in life expectancy among the Black population was smaller than projected but remained much larger than that for the White population,” the researchers write in their study. “The …

COVID-19 pandemic caused US life expectancy to decrease by nearly TWO YEARS to 76.8
3 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 pandemic caused US life expectancy to decrease by nearly TWO YEARS to 76.8

Daily Mail  

The COVID-19 pandemic caused life expectancy in the U.S. to decrease by nearly two years, a new study suggests. A new study found that life expectancy in the U.S. fell by nearly two years from 78.8 years in 2018 to 76.8 years in 2020, which is the biggest drop since World War II when life expectancy fell by 2.9 years …

COVID-19 deaths falling but Americans ‘must remain vigilant’
3 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 deaths falling but Americans ‘must remain vigilant’

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — U.S. deaths from COVID-19 are falling again as the nation continues to recover from the devastating winter surge, a trend that experts are cautiously hopeful will accelerate as more vulnerable people are vaccinated. “I am encouraged by these data but we must remain vigilant,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said …

US life expectancy plunged in 2020 by most since World War II
3 years, 10 months ago

US life expectancy plunged in 2020 by most since World War II

Hindustan Times  

US life expectancy plunged by a full year in the first half of 2020, the biggest drop since World War II, as the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged the country. A recent research paper found that the overall toll may be even higher once indirect effects are taken into account, including people who died because they delayed seeking treatment for other conditions. …

COVID: US life expectancy drops, Black and Latinos hardest hit
3 years, 10 months ago

COVID: US life expectancy drops, Black and Latinos hardest hit

Al Jazeera  

Latino and Black communities see life expectancy fall by 2 and 3 years respectively, in first 6 months of 2020. Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as COVID-19 caused its first wave of deaths that disproportionately affected people of colour, according to a new report by the US Centers …

Trump's COVID response was deadly — but decades of dreadful, racist policy set up the catastrophe
3 years, 10 months ago

Trump's COVID response was deadly — but decades of dreadful, racist policy set up the catastrophe

Salon  

About 40% of coronavirus deaths under President Donald Trump were avoidable — but even the total number of U.S. pandemic deaths last year is dwarfed by the annual number of preventable deaths caused by four decades of racist and pro-corporate policies, according to a new Lancet Commission report. "The disturbing truth is that many of President Trump's policies do not …

Study projects coronavirus pandemic will reduce US life expectancy in 2020
3 years, 11 months ago

Study projects coronavirus pandemic will reduce US life expectancy in 2020

CNN  

CNN — The coronavirus pandemic is not only having an immediate impact in terms of the deaths of thousands of Americans, it’s also taking more than a year off the average US life expectancy. Consequently, Covid-19 is expected to reverse over 10 years of progress made in closing the Black−White gap in life expectancy and reduce the previous Latino mortality …

More Americans are surviving covid-19, but that could change as rates rise
4 years, 1 month ago

More Americans are surviving covid-19, but that could change as rates rise

Live Mint  

The death rate from Covid-19 is falling in the U.S., according to infectious-disease experts and biostatisticians, a signal of advancements in treatment of the disease. Death rates are also improving as infections shift toward younger people, who are at less risk of severe Covid-19 than older people, public-health experts say. Since the beginning of the pandemic, health authorities have tracked …

US set to cross grim milestone of 200,000 Covid-19 deaths
4 years, 3 months ago

US set to cross grim milestone of 200,000 Covid-19 deaths

India Today  

The death toll from the spread of coronavirus in the United States was approaching over 200,000 lives on Monday, more than double the number of fatalities in India, the country reporting the second-highest number of cases in the world. During the early months of the pandemic, 200,000 deaths were regarded by many as the maximum number of lives likely to …

Life Expectancy Could Decline Across the World and Coronavirus Pandemic is to Blame for
4 years, 3 months ago

Life Expectancy Could Decline Across the World and Coronavirus Pandemic is to Blame for

News 18  

Researchers now claim that Covid-19 pandemic could cause a short-term decline in life expectancy in many regions of the world, unless the spread of the disease is contained. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, examined the impact of COVID-19-related deaths on life expectancy for four broad world regions across multiple rates of infection and age groups. They found …

'Racial Inequality May Be As Deadly As COVID-19,' Analysis Finds
4 years, 4 months ago

'Racial Inequality May Be As Deadly As COVID-19,' Analysis Finds

NPR  

'Racial Inequality May Be As Deadly As COVID-19,' Analysis Finds Enlarge this image Matt Rourke/AP Matt Rourke/AP Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, mortality rates and life expectancy are far better for white Americans than they are for Black people during normal, non-pandemic years, according to an analysis published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She …

The Coronavirus And The Humbling Of America
4 years, 9 months ago

The Coronavirus And The Humbling Of America

ABP News  

One of the most striking aspects of the novel coronavirus pandemic which has created an upheaval all over the world has to be the astonishing sight of the world’s richest society brought to its knees and appearing as a suppliant before the very country, China, that it holds responsible for the virus. It is a different world today, twenty days …

Life expectancy likely to fall due to coronavirus, experts say
4 years, 9 months ago

Life expectancy likely to fall due to coronavirus, experts say

NL Times  

The coronavirus will likely mean that the life expectancy in the Netherlands will fall this year, experts from Statistic Netherlands and the University of Amsterdam, and the association for intensive care NVIC said to newspaper AD. He expects that the average life expectancy will decrease by "one or two years". That means that the Dutch person will become less old" …

U.S. life expectancy rises for the first time in 4 years — but just a little
4 years, 11 months ago

U.S. life expectancy rises for the first time in 4 years — but just a little

LA Times  

Joggers run through a cemetery in Johnstown, Pa. U.S. life expectancy improved in 2018 for the first time in four years, thanks to a sharp decline in the cancer death rate and a drop in fatal drug overdoses. 2 killer, blamed for about 600,000 deaths a year, so even slight changes in the cancer death rate can have a big …

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