America Facing SHOCKING Decline In Life Expectancy

Dr. MarkAlain Dery joins the program to discuss the effects COVID is still having on the country and the world at-large. Life expectancy in the US fell from 77 to 76.4 years in 2021, which brings it back to 1996 levels, according to a federal data release. All of the medical advancements in the past 25 years have been erased. The decline in life expectancy for American men was 8 months and for women, it was 7 months. The decline was worse in 2021 than in 2020, and it occurred as other wealthy countries were seeing a rebound. The decline is largely blamed on low COVID-19 vaccination rates, poor health of Americans, and the leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19.

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We have the sharpest two-year decline in life expectancy in nearly a hundred years. Yeah, this is incredible this is incredible. This is the first time in the past like demographers, people who work with demographics and you know that is like epidemiologists but they're dealing with populations. What in the past they've only dealt with changes in the forms of weeks to months. Never has the unit of change been measured in years. And what we've seen now is a drastic reduction in life expectancy. And you know this is something that obviously is talked about regularly on the majority report is how difficult American life is. Working life you know the fact that we don't have unions that represent us. and the fact that you know all of the structural discrimination that exists in our society. And what that ultimately comes out to especially when we're talking about deaths of Despair is we're seeing this rapid reduction in life expectancy. And this is the first time it happened the first year. And the fact that it happened the second year was really stunning. And we're going to see in a couple months if it follows a three-year Trend. and unfortunately, you know as you could expect in this American society we live in it doesn't affect everybody the same. It disproportionately affects communities of color and the number three cause of death is covid. So something that before 2020 nope didn't exist. Now the number three cause of death. Especially when we're talking about the loss of expectancy of life is really as a result of covid. and that's really quite stunning. so and then of course the death despair. Which I know is something that you've talked about on this show several times before. Yeah and you can see in that life expectancy somewhere in 214 you see the sort of like almost like a soft like trough and that is particularly I think it was white men in the sort of I think 40 to 60 age group there was a decrease in life expectancy. Largely because of the opioid crisis and suicide. And it starts to come back up actually in 2019 and 2020. And then just all right it doesn't quite fall off a cliff but it sort of rolls down a hill as it were for everybody.