Stephan: The negative consequences of the largely MAGAt anti-vaxxer movement just never seems to end. Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who should be alive are dead today for one reason, they didn't get vaccinated because of the lies spewed out for months by the anti-vaxxers. I am still getting from the MAGAt media bogus reports about the Wuhan laboratory in China, or how Dr. Fauci is, take your pick, a secret agent, or a tool of the pharmacy corporations. The MAGAts live in a fact-free world, and they just never give up with their fantasies of how they are being victimized. One of the negative results of this nonsense is that life expectancy in the United States, as described in this report, is the worst it has been in decades.
People visit the “In America: Remember” public art installation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 18, 2021. More than 650,000 small white flags commemorated all the Americans who had died due to COVID-19 to that point. Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty
U.S. life expectancy estimates have fallen to the worst levels since 1996, according to a new federal report, marking the second straight year of plummeting estimates in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health officials say the drop in life expectancy from 2019 to 2021 — falling by 2.7 years to 76.1 – is now the country’s worst two-year decline on record since 1923, according to provisional estimates published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
“The declines in life expectancy since 2019 are largely driven by the pandemic,” the agency said in a news release. “COVID-19 deaths contributed to nearly three-fourths, or 74%, of the decline from 2019 to 2020, and 50% of the decline from […]
Albus Eddie
on Friday, September 2, 2022 at 4:59 am
Blaming COVID is only part of the picture. First, death certificates do not tell us if individuals died with COVID or due to COVID. Big difference, the devil is in the details. Second, the article ignores the increased in deaths due to opiates and Fentanyl. An effect of the decades long bipartisan so called “war on drugs” which continues to negatively impact communities nationwide.
Rev. Dean
on Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 7:37 pm
There is also an increase in gum violence which adds a lot to the total figure of deaths in the U.S. especially!
Blaming COVID is only part of the picture. First, death certificates do not tell us if individuals died with COVID or due to COVID. Big difference, the devil is in the details. Second, the article ignores the increased in deaths due to opiates and Fentanyl. An effect of the decades long bipartisan so called “war on drugs” which continues to negatively impact communities nationwide.
There is also an increase in gum violence which adds a lot to the total figure of deaths in the U.S. especially!