U.S. life expectancy, already declining since the onset of the pandemic, fell further in 2021, according to the CDC’s final accounting of death certificates.
If the length of our lives is a good measure of our well-being, the United States is in some trouble.
But the CDC made clear that the coronavirus was not the only corrosive influence on America’s life expectancy. Considering deaths from all causes, the age-adjusted mortality rate for Americans last year was 879.7 deaths per 100,000 people, up 5.3% from 2020. But “there’s an obvious hypothesis that’s sort of the elephant in the room,” said Woolf, who was not involved in the CDC reports. Early COVID-19 death rates were highest among Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native communities, an experience that appears to have prompted them to get vaccinated in 2021, Woolf said. By contrast, “many white populations either believed they were at less risk, or had political objections to getting vaccinated or wearing masks.
The pandemic, of course, has taken its heaviest toll on senior citizens, especially those 75 and older. But these victims are closer to their predicted life’s end than other Americans. As a statistical matter, a child’s death, or even the death of a 45-year-old, will put a deeper dent in the nation’s average lifespan than the passing of an octogenarian.than in 2020. And in both years, drug overdose rates were highest for adults ages 25 to 54.
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