By the time COVID-19 hit, about 600,000 more people in the U. S. were in the U. S. U. S. citizens were dying a year compared to their peers.
By the time COVID-19 hit, about 600,000 more people in the US were dying a year than their peers.
From 1930 until the middle of the last century, the death rate in the United States declined or was proportional to the death rates of other rich countries, such as Canada, France, and Britain. outcomes and death rates in the United States began to diverge from those of their peers.
By 2021, about a portion of all deaths of people under 65 in the U. S. will be in the U. S. UU. se would have been avoided if U. S. death rates were to be avoided. The U. S. rates were comparable to those in other countries, according to a new study published by the National Academy of Sciences.
In other words, on average, one in two deaths of people under 65 in the United States would be prevented in countries such as Australia, Germany, Japan or Portugal. They were dying a year longer than scientists would expect if death rates were equivalent to those in peer countries. COVID-19 then spiked the number of “excess deaths” that exceeded expected death rates.
Study co-author Jacob Bor, an assistant professor of global fitness and epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health, said the media has focused on declining life expectancy in the U. S. “What it really means and how badly we’re doing compared to other places.
“Life expectancy applies to an individual; applies to a population,” Bor said in a statement. “[Our data] is counterfactual: it gives us a concept of the number of lives lost. “
Life expectancy measures the average number of years other people live in an express population. In 2021, the United States had the lowest life expectancy among the richest countries for those designated male or female at birth (73 years and 79 years, respectively).
Before COVID, U. S. The U. S. was experiencing an improvement in life expectancy, but not at the same rate as its peers. But while other countries have noticed a decline in life expectancy and then recovered to fashionable degrees during the pandemic, COVID-19 has erased any small expansion in life expectancy that the U. S. has seen in the U. S. The U. S. had experimented in two decades. The result is that in the United States, more people die younger than in other countries.
“The American political environment is the big story. This information sheds light on how all teams are suffering, before and after the pandemic, as well as systemic gaps in the social safety net.
Bor and his team call those deaths “missing Americans” to illustrate the number of lives “lost” when death rates in the United States are compared to those in other countries. To do this, the researchers compared the number of deaths recorded. in the United States to the average number of deaths recorded in 21 rich countries since the 1930s. In the 1980s, the number of “excess deaths” in the United States expanded every year.
In the 1980s, Republican President Ronald Reagan cut federal spending on Medicaid and other public safety net and fitness systems while deregulating the fitness care sector. “Reaganomics” coincided with the U. S. -China divergence. The U. S. has been working with other countries in terms of fitness outcomes, but that hasn’t stopped President Donald Trump and other Republicans are pursuing policies.
The examination notes that “missing Americans” is a statistical construct that “cannot specify which deaths would have been avoided, but only the number that would have been avoided if the United States had the death rates of its peers. “
“The political environment of EE. UU. es big history,” Bor said. “This data sheds light on how all teams are suffering, before and after the pandemic, as well as systemic gaps in the social safety net that are very different in the US. The U. S. compares to other countries. “
One of the most glaring systemic gaps is fitness coverage, and Bor said he’s surprised by the number of other people in the U. S. U. S. patients die earlier in life than in other countries where fitness care is universal or heavily subsidized. It can provide physical care to low-income adults and children, other people with disabilities, and the elderly, but not to millions of adults under the age of 65.
The number of uninsured adults declined under the Affordable Care Act as more people entered marketplace plans, however, subsidized fitness policy is limited and 12% of adults under 65 were uninsured in 2019 with COVID just around the corner.
“It doesn’t have to be this way. We have health insurance and social security after age 65. We have moderate systems for children,” Bor said.
The whirlwind of death and political conflict that followed COVID-19 is the predictable result of decades of disinvestment in the fitness of the American population.
Of course, health care policy is rarely the only loophole in the U. S. safety net. UU. de COVID has an effect on decreasing life expectancy, increasing fatal drug overdoses and the virus claimed more than 1 million lives and left others with long-term complications.
Bor said many studies have documented the disproportionate effect of the pandemic on frontline staff or blacks and Native Americans, for example, but whites in the U. S. have not been able to do so. The U. S. is the “reference category” in studies to which non-white demographics are compared. Yet this organization, white Americans, accounts for the majority of “excess deaths” and far worse than other people living in other countries.
“We’re comparing black people to an organization that is no longer doing well compared to other countries,” Bor said.
The study looks at death rates through 2021 and, despite a Democrat in the White House, the country has continued to take steps in the wrong direction. prohibitions that harm pregnant women. An estimated 2. 1 million other people, including young people, have recently lost their fitness policy due to post-pandemic purges of Medicaid lists. Private insurance is expensive and the industry is not known for being user-friendly; About 60% of Americans say they’ve had problems with their health insurance in the past year.
While doctors and researchers have harshly criticized Trump’s fitness policies before and after the COVID hit, the new study suggests that public fitness and quality of life in the U. S. is a major factor in the U. S. The U. S. has begun a marked decline compared to other countries under the Reagan administration. The whirlwind of death and political strife that followed COVID-19, the predictable result of decades of disinvestment in the fitness of the American population, not to mention the management that was underway when the virus arrived.
“It’s not a coincidence that the U. S. “The U. S. had the greatest effect of COVID on mortality compared to other countries and the worst pre-COVID death rates,” Bor said.
Mike Ludwig is a Truthout journalist founded in Nouvelle-Orléans. He is also the host of “Climate Front Lines,” a podcast about people, places and ecosystems on the front lines of the climate crisis. Follow him on Twitter : @ludwig_mike.
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