Life expectancy in the U.S. plunged last year in the largest one-year drop since WW2, CDC reports, with deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses fueling the decline.
"reflects the inequalities that were present before the pandemic that have to do with unequal access to health care and racial and ethnic disparities in health more generally, which largely have to do with socioeconomic disadvantages," said Irma Elo, chair of the sociology department and a research associate at the Population Aging Research Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
"The people who have disproportionately suffered from this pandemic were the same people who were put in positions where they were more likely to be exposed because of their employment," Elo said. The report also highlighted an increase in homicides and diabetes, which together accounted for about 5.5 percent of the decrease in life expectancy. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis — which hint at anfor full coverage of the Covid-19 pandemicThe researchers estimated that an increase in deaths from accidents or unintentional injuries — one-third of which were drug overdoses — was responsible for 11 percent of the decline in life expectancy.
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