Life Expectancy In The Us Fell For The Second Year In A Row Fueled By Covid 19

Comment Life expectancy in the United States decreased in 2021 for the second consecutive year, reflecting the merciless taxes imposed covid-19 to the nation’s health, according to a federal report released Wednesday. This is the largest continuous decline in life expectancy at birth since the early 20s. Americans can now expect to live as long as they did in 1996, according to provisional data released by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overall, life expectancy fell from 77 years in 2020 to 76.1 years in 2021. The biggest drop was among Native Americans, whose 2021 life expectancy fell to 65, the Medicare eligibility age. in a single year, Native Americans lost nearly two years of life. Whites had the second largest drop, losing a full year of life expectancy, while blacks lost 0.7 years. “In 2021, things should have been much better,” said Noreen Goldman, a demographer at Princeton University who has studied socioeconomic disparities in health for years and whose research focuses on the impact of the pandemic on life expectancy. “There are some countries whose life expectancy in ’21 was higher than before the pandemic. They suffered in 2020 and by ’21, they had mostly recovered. It’s not us.” The federal report highlights two key things, said Reed Tucson, co-founder of the Black Coalition Against Covid. The first: that many of these deaths were unnecessary and preventable, Tuckson said. The second: The extraordinary efforts made by the black community to overcome the overwhelming burden of death that afflicted it at the beginning of the pandemic so that it could be “saved.” “We had to come from a lot further back,” said Tuckson, an internist and former D.C. public health commissioner. “As the disease has progressed in society over the past two years, this gap has closed. At the same time, White America, particularly in red states, is not as compliant. Leadership was much less focused. And we’re probably seeing the results of that.” Some of that comes back to messaging, public health experts said. “You have to talk about disparities, but you have to talk about disparities in a careful way,” said Thomas A. LaVeist, dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. “It didn’t mean the Whites weren’t in danger.” Throughout the pandemic, the coronavirus has disproportionately carved a path of death and disease through the nation’s communities of color. The gap between the health status of the nation’s racial and ethnic groups has existed for centuries, with marginalized people suffering the devastating effects of a confluence of environmental, economic, and political factors that put them at higher risk for chronic conditions that leave the immune system vulnerable. “If someone in a community has experienced lifelong food insecurity, lack of proper access to primary care physicians and other adverse experiences, their immune response to a disease like the coronavirus would be poor,” said Dana Burr Bradley, dean of the Erickson School. of Aging Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. And so, even before the pandemic, Native Americans and blacks were living shorter lives than most other Americans. The shortened lifespan reflects a broader disparity: higher rates of obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and chronic liver disease than whites experience. And research shows they develop these chronic conditions years earlier, too. Because of that history, Abigail Echo-Hawk, executive vice president at the Seattle Indian Health Board and director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, said she disagrees with the way the report frames declining life expectancy among Native Americans as primarily the result of covid-19. The federal study also mentions unintentional injuries, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. “We are not in danger because we are indigenous,” he said. It is “a virus that took advantage of the rampant health disparities that have been created by this country. This is what this paper shows. We have to recognize it for what it is.” In Alaska Native villages and communities of color, the enduring silence of grief Part of this struggle for recognition means they are counted among the victims of the coronavirus, because the misclassification of Native Americans in race and ethnicity data often obscures their health experiences. Because of that, Echo-Hawk said, the federal report likely doesn’t capture the full scope of the devastation in this community. “In the Native community, a very common saying is, ‘You’re born Indian and you die White,’” Echo-Hawk said. “There’s a lot of sadness in looking at this data and seeing the people we know die and [who] they are not represented”. Life expectancy at birth, considered a reliable barometer of a nation’s health, has risen steadily in the United States since the mid-20th century, with small annual declines in recent years caused mostly by “deaths of despair” — drug overdoses, alcoholism and suicide. The steady and modest decline in life expectancy from 2015 to 2017 was a major concern among public health experts after decades of progress against heart disease, cancer and other diseases. In 2019, life expectancy rose as the number of fatal drug overdoses fell slightly for the first time in 28 years. Then came the pandemic and since then life expectancy has decreased. “The idea that people’s life expectancy – in such a rich country – would decrease is a wake-up call,” Bradley said. The decline in life expectancy was fueled, in part, by the staggering number of younger deaths in communities of color. Death rates from Covid among young and middle-aged Native Americans were 10 times higher than for whites in 2020 and four to five times higher in 2021, according to a study published last month in the journal Demographic Research. The result, according to the report, which Goldman authored: Life expectancy for Native Americans dropped 6.4 years in two years. The report called Native American life expectancy “shockingly low” for a high-income country, saying it was the lowest of any country in the Americas “with the sole exception of Haiti, where estimated life expectancy is similar at 64.” Death in prime of life: Covid-19 proves especially deadly for younger Latinos So many early deaths also contributed to the erosion of life expectancy “Latin paradox”. For years, researchers had recognized that Latinos in the United States lived longer than Whites, despite socioeconomic factors that typically erode health and shorten life. That advantage had grown since 2006, when the federal government began separately recording the life expectancy of Latinos. About two-thirds of that advantage has disappeared in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, Goldman said. “How will this country deal with this injustice?” Echo-Hawk asked. “We are dying in silence.”

title: “Life Expectancy In The Us Fell For The Second Year In A Row Fueled By Covid 19 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-12” author: “Dorothy Brubaker”

Comment Life expectancy in the United States decreased in 2021 for the second consecutive year, reflecting the merciless taxes imposed covid-19 to the nation’s health, according to a federal report released Wednesday. This is the largest continuous decline in life expectancy at birth since the early 20s. Americans can now expect to live as long as they did in 1996, according to provisional data released by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overall, life expectancy fell from 77 years in 2020 to 76.1 years in 2021. The biggest drop was among Native Americans, whose 2021 life expectancy fell to 65, the Medicare eligibility age. in a single year, Native Americans lost nearly two years of life. Whites had the second largest drop, losing a full year of life expectancy, while blacks lost 0.7 years. “In 2021, things should have been much better,” said Noreen Goldman, a demographer at Princeton University who has studied socioeconomic disparities in health for years and whose research focuses on the impact of the pandemic on life expectancy. “There are some countries whose life expectancy in ’21 was higher than before the pandemic. They suffered in 2020 and by ’21, they had mostly recovered. It’s not us.” The federal report highlights two key things, said Reed Tucson, co-founder of the Black Coalition Against Covid. The first: that many of these deaths were unnecessary and preventable, Tuckson said. The second: The extraordinary efforts made by the black community to overcome the overwhelming burden of death that afflicted it at the beginning of the pandemic so that it could be “saved.” “We had to come from a lot further back,” said Tuckson, an internist and former D.C. public health commissioner. “As the disease has progressed in society over the past two years, this gap has closed. At the same time, White America, particularly in red states, is not as compliant. Leadership was much less focused. And we’re probably seeing the results of that.” Some of that comes back to messaging, public health experts said. “You have to talk about disparities, but you have to talk about disparities in a careful way,” said Thomas A. LaVeist, dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. “It didn’t mean the Whites weren’t in danger.” Throughout the pandemic, the coronavirus has disproportionately carved a path of death and disease through the nation’s communities of color. The gap between the health status of the nation’s racial and ethnic groups has existed for centuries, with marginalized people suffering the devastating effects of a confluence of environmental, economic, and political factors that put them at higher risk for chronic conditions that leave the immune system vulnerable. “If someone in a community has experienced lifelong food insecurity, lack of proper access to primary care physicians and other adverse experiences, their immune response to a disease like the coronavirus would be poor,” said Dana Burr Bradley, dean of the Erickson School. of Aging Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. And so, even before the pandemic, Native Americans and blacks were living shorter lives than most other Americans. The shortened lifespan reflects a broader disparity: higher rates of obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and chronic liver disease than whites experience. And research shows they develop these chronic conditions years earlier, too. Because of that history, Abigail Echo-Hawk, executive vice president at the Seattle Indian Health Board and director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, said she disagrees with the way the report frames declining life expectancy among Native Americans as primarily the result of covid-19. The federal study also mentions unintentional injuries, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. “We are not in danger because we are indigenous,” he said. It is “a virus that took advantage of the rampant health disparities that have been created by this country. This is what this paper shows. We have to recognize it for what it is.” In Alaska Native villages and communities of color, the enduring silence of grief Part of this struggle for recognition means they are counted among the victims of the coronavirus, because the misclassification of Native Americans in race and ethnicity data often obscures their health experiences. Because of that, Echo-Hawk said, the federal report likely doesn’t capture the full scope of the devastation in this community. “In the Native community, a very common saying is, ‘You’re born Indian and you die White,’” Echo-Hawk said. “There’s a lot of sadness in looking at this data and seeing the people we know die and [who] they are not represented”. Life expectancy at birth, considered a reliable barometer of a nation’s health, has risen steadily in the United States since the mid-20th century, with small annual declines in recent years caused mostly by “deaths of despair” — drug overdoses, alcoholism and suicide. The steady and modest decline in life expectancy from 2015 to 2017 was a major concern among public health experts after decades of progress against heart disease, cancer and other diseases. In 2019, life expectancy rose as the number of fatal drug overdoses fell slightly for the first time in 28 years. Then came the pandemic and since then life expectancy has decreased. “The idea that people’s life expectancy – in such a rich country – would decrease is a wake-up call,” Bradley said. The decline in life expectancy was fueled, in part, by the staggering number of younger deaths in communities of color. Death rates from Covid among young and middle-aged Native Americans were 10 times higher than for whites in 2020 and four to five times higher in 2021, according to a study published last month in the journal Demographic Research. The result, according to the report, which Goldman authored: Life expectancy for Native Americans dropped 6.4 years in two years. The report called Native American life expectancy “shockingly low” for a high-income country, saying it was the lowest of any country in the Americas “with the sole exception of Haiti, where estimated life expectancy is similar at 64.” Death in prime of life: Covid-19 proves especially deadly for younger Latinos So many early deaths also contributed to the erosion of life expectancy “Latin paradox”. For years, researchers had recognized that Latinos in the United States lived longer than Whites, despite socioeconomic factors that typically erode health and shorten life. That advantage had grown since 2006, when the federal government began separately recording the life expectancy of Latinos. About two-thirds of that advantage has disappeared in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, Goldman said. “How will this country deal with this injustice?” Echo-Hawk asked. “We are dying in silence.”

title: “Life Expectancy In The Us Fell For The Second Year In A Row Fueled By Covid 19 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-07” author: “Dorothy Allen”

Comment Life expectancy in the United States decreased in 2021 for the second consecutive year, reflecting the merciless taxes imposed covid-19 to the nation’s health, according to a federal report released Wednesday. This is the largest continuous decline in life expectancy at birth since the early 20s. Americans can now expect to live as long as they did in 1996, according to provisional data released by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overall, life expectancy fell from 77 years in 2020 to 76.1 years in 2021. The biggest drop was among Native Americans, whose 2021 life expectancy fell to 65, the Medicare eligibility age. in a single year, Native Americans lost nearly two years of life. Whites had the second largest drop, losing a full year of life expectancy, while blacks lost 0.7 years. “In 2021, things should have been much better,” said Noreen Goldman, a demographer at Princeton University who has studied socioeconomic disparities in health for years and whose research focuses on the impact of the pandemic on life expectancy. “There are some countries whose life expectancy in ’21 was higher than before the pandemic. They suffered in 2020 and by ’21, they had mostly recovered. It’s not us.” The federal report highlights two key things, said Reed Tucson, co-founder of the Black Coalition Against Covid. The first: that many of these deaths were unnecessary and preventable, Tuckson said. The second: The extraordinary efforts made by the black community to overcome the overwhelming burden of death that afflicted it at the beginning of the pandemic so that it could be “saved.” “We had to come from a lot further back,” said Tuckson, an internist and former D.C. public health commissioner. “As the disease has progressed in society over the past two years, this gap has closed. At the same time, White America, particularly in red states, is not as compliant. Leadership was much less focused. And we’re probably seeing the results of that.” Some of that comes back to messaging, public health experts said. “You have to talk about disparities, but you have to talk about disparities in a careful way,” said Thomas A. LaVeist, dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. “It didn’t mean the Whites weren’t in danger.” Throughout the pandemic, the coronavirus has disproportionately carved a path of death and disease through the nation’s communities of color. The gap between the health status of the nation’s racial and ethnic groups has existed for centuries, with marginalized people suffering the devastating effects of a confluence of environmental, economic, and political factors that put them at higher risk for chronic conditions that leave the immune system vulnerable. “If someone in a community has experienced lifelong food insecurity, lack of proper access to primary care physicians and other adverse experiences, their immune response to a disease like the coronavirus would be poor,” said Dana Burr Bradley, dean of the Erickson School. of Aging Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. And so, even before the pandemic, Native Americans and blacks were living shorter lives than most other Americans. The shortened lifespan reflects a broader disparity: higher rates of obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and chronic liver disease than whites experience. And research shows they develop these chronic conditions years earlier, too. Because of that history, Abigail Echo-Hawk, executive vice president at the Seattle Indian Health Board and director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, said she disagrees with the way the report frames declining life expectancy among Native Americans as primarily the result of covid-19. The federal study also mentions unintentional injuries, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. “We are not in danger because we are indigenous,” he said. It is “a virus that took advantage of the rampant health disparities that have been created by this country. This is what this paper shows. We have to recognize it for what it is.” In Alaska Native villages and communities of color, the enduring silence of grief Part of this struggle for recognition means they are counted among the victims of the coronavirus, because the misclassification of Native Americans in race and ethnicity data often obscures their health experiences. Because of that, Echo-Hawk said, the federal report likely doesn’t capture the full scope of the devastation in this community. “In the Native community, a very common saying is, ‘You’re born Indian and you die White,’” Echo-Hawk said. “There’s a lot of sadness in looking at this data and seeing the people we know die and [who] they are not represented”. Life expectancy at birth, considered a reliable barometer of a nation’s health, has risen steadily in the United States since the mid-20th century, with small annual declines in recent years caused mostly by “deaths of despair” — drug overdoses, alcoholism and suicide. The steady and modest decline in life expectancy from 2015 to 2017 was a major concern among public health experts after decades of progress against heart disease, cancer and other diseases. In 2019, life expectancy rose as the number of fatal drug overdoses fell slightly for the first time in 28 years. Then came the pandemic and since then life expectancy has decreased. “The idea that people’s life expectancy – in such a rich country – would decrease is a wake-up call,” Bradley said. The decline in life expectancy was fueled, in part, by the staggering number of younger deaths in communities of color. Death rates from Covid among young and middle-aged Native Americans were 10 times higher than for whites in 2020 and four to five times higher in 2021, according to a study published last month in the journal Demographic Research. The result, according to the report, which Goldman authored: Life expectancy for Native Americans dropped 6.4 years in two years. The report called Native American life expectancy “shockingly low” for a high-income country, saying it was the lowest of any country in the Americas “with the sole exception of Haiti, where estimated life expectancy is similar at 64.” Death in prime of life: Covid-19 proves especially deadly for younger Latinos So many early deaths also contributed to the erosion of life expectancy “Latin paradox”. For years, researchers had recognized that Latinos in the United States lived longer than Whites, despite socioeconomic factors that typically erode health and shorten life. That advantage had grown since 2006, when the federal government began separately recording the life expectancy of Latinos. About two-thirds of that advantage has disappeared in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, Goldman said. “How will this country deal with this injustice?” Echo-Hawk asked. “We are dying in silence.”

title: “Life Expectancy In The Us Fell For The Second Year In A Row Fueled By Covid 19 Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-27” author: “Bridget Parkhill”

Comment Life expectancy in the United States decreased in 2021 for the second consecutive year, reflecting the merciless taxes imposed covid-19 to the nation’s health, according to a federal report released Wednesday. This is the largest continuous decline in life expectancy at birth since the early 20s. Americans can now expect to live as long as they did in 1996, according to provisional data released by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overall, life expectancy fell from 77 years in 2020 to 76.1 years in 2021. The biggest drop was among Native Americans, whose 2021 life expectancy fell to 65, the Medicare eligibility age. in a single year, Native Americans lost nearly two years of life. Whites had the second largest drop, losing a full year of life expectancy, while blacks lost 0.7 years. “In 2021, things should have been much better,” said Noreen Goldman, a demographer at Princeton University who has studied socioeconomic disparities in health for years and whose research focuses on the impact of the pandemic on life expectancy. “There are some countries whose life expectancy in ’21 was higher than before the pandemic. They suffered in 2020 and by ’21, they had mostly recovered. It’s not us.” The federal report highlights two key things, said Reed Tucson, co-founder of the Black Coalition Against Covid. The first: that many of these deaths were unnecessary and preventable, Tuckson said. The second: The extraordinary efforts made by the black community to overcome the overwhelming burden of death that afflicted it at the beginning of the pandemic so that it could be “saved.” “We had to come from a lot further back,” said Tuckson, an internist and former D.C. public health commissioner. “As the disease has progressed in society over the past two years, this gap has closed. At the same time, White America, particularly in red states, is not as compliant. Leadership was much less focused. And we’re probably seeing the results of that.” Some of that comes back to messaging, public health experts said. “You have to talk about disparities, but you have to talk about disparities in a careful way,” said Thomas A. LaVeist, dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. “It didn’t mean the Whites weren’t in danger.” Throughout the pandemic, the coronavirus has disproportionately carved a path of death and disease through the nation’s communities of color. The gap between the health status of the nation’s racial and ethnic groups has existed for centuries, with marginalized people suffering the devastating effects of a confluence of environmental, economic, and political factors that put them at higher risk for chronic conditions that leave the immune system vulnerable. “If someone in a community has experienced lifelong food insecurity, lack of proper access to primary care physicians and other adverse experiences, their immune response to a disease like the coronavirus would be poor,” said Dana Burr Bradley, dean of the Erickson School. of Aging Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. And so, even before the pandemic, Native Americans and blacks were living shorter lives than most other Americans. The shortened lifespan reflects a broader disparity: higher rates of obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and chronic liver disease than whites experience. And research shows they develop these chronic conditions years earlier, too. Because of that history, Abigail Echo-Hawk, executive vice president at the Seattle Indian Health Board and director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, said she disagrees with the way the report frames declining life expectancy among Native Americans as primarily the result of covid-19. The federal study also mentions unintentional injuries, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis. “We are not in danger because we are indigenous,” he said. It is “a virus that took advantage of the rampant health disparities that have been created by this country. This is what this paper shows. We have to recognize it for what it is.” In Alaska Native villages and communities of color, the enduring silence of grief Part of this struggle for recognition means they are counted among the victims of the coronavirus, because the misclassification of Native Americans in race and ethnicity data often obscures their health experiences. Because of that, Echo-Hawk said, the federal report likely doesn’t capture the full scope of the devastation in this community. “In the Native community, a very common saying is, ‘You’re born Indian and you die White,’” Echo-Hawk said. “There’s a lot of sadness in looking at this data and seeing the people we know die and [who] they are not represented”. Life expectancy at birth, considered a reliable barometer of a nation’s health, has risen steadily in the United States since the mid-20th century, with small annual declines in recent years caused mostly by “deaths of despair” — drug overdoses, alcoholism and suicide. The steady and modest decline in life expectancy from 2015 to 2017 was a major concern among public health experts after decades of progress against heart disease, cancer and other diseases. In 2019, life expectancy rose as the number of fatal drug overdoses fell slightly for the first time in 28 years. Then came the pandemic and since then life expectancy has decreased. “The idea that people’s life expectancy – in such a rich country – would decrease is a wake-up call,” Bradley said. The decline in life expectancy was fueled, in part, by the staggering number of younger deaths in communities of color. Death rates from Covid among young and middle-aged Native Americans were 10 times higher than for whites in 2020 and four to five times higher in 2021, according to a study published last month in the journal Demographic Research. The result, according to the report, which Goldman authored: Life expectancy for Native Americans dropped 6.4 years in two years. The report called Native American life expectancy “shockingly low” for a high-income country, saying it was the lowest of any country in the Americas “with the sole exception of Haiti, where estimated life expectancy is similar at 64.” Death in prime of life: Covid-19 proves especially deadly for younger Latinos So many early deaths also contributed to the erosion of life expectancy “Latin paradox”. For years, researchers had recognized that Latinos in the United States lived longer than Whites, despite socioeconomic factors that typically erode health and shorten life. That advantage had grown since 2006, when the federal government began separately recording the life expectancy of Latinos. About two-thirds of that advantage has disappeared in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic, Goldman said. “How will this country deal with this injustice?” Echo-Hawk asked. “We are dying in silence.”