Life Expectancy Plunged in U.S. in First Half of 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Feb. 18, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014Preliminary estimates issued today by the CDC indicate that life expectancy in the United States dropped by a huge one year in the first half of 2020 alone, largely as a direct and indirect result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The average drop for Black Americans was a stunning three years; for Hispanics nearly two years. This is a lawful expression of what Lyndon LaRouche warned for 50 years would happen if society\u2019s Potential Relative Population Density drops below the actual population: the total population and its average life expectancy will follow into the abyss, sooner or later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is a huge decline,\u201d said Robert Anderson, who oversees the numbers for the CDC, according to a report published by AP. \u201cYou have to go back to World War II, the 1940s, to find a decline like this.\u201d Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, a health equity researcher and dean at the University of California, San Francisco said: \u201cWhat is really quite striking in these numbers is that they only reflect the first half of the year \u2026 I would expect that these numbers would only get worse,\u201d said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2019, average life expectancy in the US was 78.8 years\u201475.1 for males and 80.5 for females. In the first half of 2020, it had dropped to 77.8 years for all Americans. \u201cAs a group, Hispanics in the U.S. have had the most longevity and still do. Black people now lag white people by six years in life expectancy, reversing a trend that had been bringing their numbers closer since 1993,\u201d according to AP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Otis Brawley, a cancer specialist and public health professor at Johns Hopkins University, stated: \u201cThe focus really needs to be broad-spread of getting every American adequate care. And health care needs to be defined as prevention as well as treatment.\u201d He said \u201cour mishandling of the pandemic\u201d is largely responsible for the drop in life expectancy. \u201cWe have been devastated by the coronavirus more so than any other country. We are 4% of the world\u2019s population, more than 20% of the world\u2019s coronavirus deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Life Expectancy Plunged in U.S. in First Half of 2020 Feb. 18, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014Preliminary estimates issued today by the CDC indicate that life expectancy in the United States dropped by a huge one year in the first half of 2020 alone, largely as a direct and indirect result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The average drop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":69035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[517,505,634],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-69032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies-economic","category-updates","category-healthcare","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69034,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69032\/revisions\/69034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}