{"id":9156,"date":"2022-10-27T19:12:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9156"},"modified":"2022-10-27T19:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:12:35","slug":"why-are-american-lives-getting-shorter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9156","title":{"rendered":"Why are American lives getting shorter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“the US was one of only two among 21 selected similar wealthy countries \u2014 along with Israel \u2014 in which life expectancy continued to decline last year. While most countries suffered hundreds of thousands of untimely deaths during the first year of Covid-19, once people began to get vaccinated, life expectancies for almost all the 21 countries either stayed the same or began to rise again, many up to their pre-pandemic levels.
\u00a0The US started off with lower pre-Covid life expectancies than other rich countries like South Korea, France, and Australia. It has been the case for decades that the United States spends\u00a0exorbitant amounts<\/a>\u00a0on health care, yet has worse health outcomes than comparable countries. Even before the pandemic, people in the US faced the\u00a0opioid epidemic<\/a>,\u00a0gun violence<\/a>, and\u00a0higher chronic disease<\/a>\u00a0rates than people in other rich countries.”\u00a0 \u00a0
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“Lack of health access and a robust public health care system exacerbated Covid-19\u2019s effects, said Noreen Goldman, a professor of demography and public affairs at Princeton University. The\u00a0lack of national coordination<\/a>\u00a0to address the pandemic, and lower\u00a0vaccination rates<\/a>, said Goldman, have also been a factor in outcomes being worse in the US than other comparable countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young people<\/a>\u00a0were dying more from Covid-19 in 2021 than 2020, said Theresa Andrasfay, a demography researcher at the University of Southern California. While age remains the biggest risk factor, more middle-aged adults who are\u00a0not vaccinated<\/a>\u00a0are dying. Additionally, she said, high rates of chronic disease, obesity, and diabetes had not yet affected mortality statistics, but when a disease \u2014 Covid-19 \u2014 came along that had these as risk factors, \u201cit was like lighting a match.\u201d”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2022\/9\/7\/23339734\/life-expectancy-shorter-united-states-covid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“the US was one of only two among 21 selected similar wealthy countries \u2014 along with Israel \u2014 in which life expectancy continued to decline last year. While most countries suffered hundreds of thousands of untimely deaths during the first year of Covid-19, once people began to get vaccinated, life expectancies for almost all the 21 countries either stayed the same or began to rise again, many up to their pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n

The US started off with lower pre-Covid life expectancies than other rich countries like South Korea, France, and Australia. It has been the case for decades that the United States spends exorbitant amounts on health care, yet has worse health outcomes than comparable countries. Even before the pandemic, people in the US faced the opioid epidemic, gun violence, and higher chronic disease rates than people in other rich countries.” <\/p>\n

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“Lack of health access and a robust public health care system exacerbated Covid-19\u2019s effects, said Noreen Goldman, a professor of demography and public affairs at Princeton University. The lack of national coordination to address the pandemic, and lower vaccination rates, said Goldman, have also been a factor in outcomes being worse in the US than other comparable countries.
\nYoung people were dying more from Covid-19 in 2021 than 2020, said Theresa Andrasfay, a demography researcher at the University of Southern California. While age remains the biggest risk factor, more middle-aged adults who are not vaccinated are dying. Additionally, she said, high rates of chronic disease, obesity, and diabetes had not yet affected mortality statistics, but when a disease \u2014 Covid-19 \u2014 came along that had these as risk factors, \u201cit was like lighting a match.\u201d”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,53,81,80,73],"class_list":["post-9156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-health","tag-health-system","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9157,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}