The United States had the second-steepest decline in life expectancy among high-income countries last year during the pandemic, according to a study of death
The United States had the second-steepest decline in life expectancy among high-income countries last year during the pandemic, according to aThe study, published Wednesday in The BMJ , assessed premature death in 37 countries, comparing observed life expectancy in 2020 with what would have been expected for the year based on historical trends from 2005-2019. Life expectancy dropped in 31 of these countries during the pandemic. from about 76.7 to 74.
Disease was not the only factor. Homicides and drug overdose deaths rose last year, too, said Bryan Tysinger, a research assistant professor in health policy at the University of Southern California, who was not part of the BMJ study, suggesting that the pandemic’s effects on social structures were a large part of“It continues to be striking how poorly the U.S. has handled the Covid pandemic,” Tysinger said. “The U.S. should not be leading or nearly leading excess deaths in a pandemic like this.
Countries with stricter Covid restrictions, higher trust in government and recent experience managing epidemics seemed to fare better in 2020, Tysinger said. Andrasfay said it could mean that the country was worse at protecting essential workers or that working-age people had more conditions that put them at greater danger from Covid, she added. life expectancy reductions have been larger in Black and Latino populationsAndrasfay said that could be due to factors like higher exposure rates for Covid among essential workers, inequitable access to health care and differing rates of health conditions that heighten risk for Covid.
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