Per the  Washington Post:

 

"Newly published data on life expectancy in the United States shows a partial rebound from the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic, but drug overdoses, homicides and chronic illnesses such as heart disease continue to drive a long-term mortality crisis that has made this country an outlier in longevity among wealthy nations.

 

Life expectancy in 2022 rose more than a full year, to 77.5 years, in data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than four-fifths of this positive jump was attributable to a drop in COVID-19 deaths.

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In 2019, U.S. life expectancy at birth stood at 78.8 years. That figure cratered to 76.4 in 2021, the lowest since 1996. That was due partly to the extraordinary wave of COVID deaths in January and February of that year as the United States had only begun to roll out vaccines."

 

(more)

 

https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/11/29/new-cdc-life-expectancy-data-shows-painfully-slow-rebound-from-covid/

 

 

 

Rise in U.S. life expectancy is ‘good news,’ but gains aren’t enough to wipe out COVID losses

"Life expectancy in the United States rose in 2022, the first increase since the COVID pandemic began, according to new federal data. But those gains were not enough to compensate for the years of life lost to the virus, which remains one of the nation’s top causes of death.

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But COVID is still the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., Arias said. And these gains weren’t enough to overcome the backslide in life expectancy – 2.4 years — since 2020 and the start of the pandemic.

 

These latest estimates offer a stark reminder of how much further the nation must go to recover from that crater of loss: Life expectancy is now “what it was 20 years ago,” Arias said."

 

(more)

 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/rise-in-u-s-life-expectancy-is-good-news-but-gains-arent-enough-to-wipe-out-covid-losses

 

Compared to the rest of the 'Western' world, these numbers - and going back now at least a couple of decades - say nothing good about the evolution of Usofan cultures, lifestyles and health arrangements.

17 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

Compared to the rest of the 'Western' world, these numbers - and going back now at least a couple of decades - say nothing good about the evolution of Usofan cultures, lifestyles and health arrangements.

 

Yup... from the full Wash Po report that went beyond the excerpt above:

 

"The rise in certain chronic diseases in the United States — and slower progress in combating others — put the nation in a vulnerable position when the novel virus arrived. A scattered and politically polarized response to the pandemic played a role in the dire death toll that followed, as did resistance to vaccination and other public health measures. No other wealthy country experienced so high a rate of death per capita from covid."

 

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" In articles this year, The Washington Post has explored the many reasons this country lags peer nations in life expectancy, and a major finding is that chronic conditions such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes and cancer play an underappreciated role in suppressing life spans."

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/11/29/life-expectancy-2022-united-states/

One of my friends from grade school died of COVID even after she had three shots of the Pfizer Covid Vaccine. She was morbidly obese and I am surprised she made it this far in her life. But the Covid virus only added to her already disintegrated health.

 

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-do-overweight-people-account-most-covid-19-deaths-1574186

 

 

10 hours ago, Keep Right said:

the Covid virus only added to her already disintegrated health.

Yes, poor Usofan health stats & performance go back well before covid.

"Between 1959 and 2016, US life expectancy increased by almost 10 years, from 69.9 years in 1959 to 78.9 years in 2016, with the fastest increase (highest APC) occurring during 1969–1979 (APC=0.48, p < 0.01) (Figure 1).

 

Life expectancy began to advance more slowly in the 1980s and plateaued in 2011 ... The NCHS reported that US life expectancy peaked (78.9 years) in 2014 and subsequently decreased significantly for three consecutive years, reaching 78.6 years in 2017.^2,9

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^"By 2014, midlife mortality was increasing across all racial groups, caused by drug overdoses, alcohol abuse, suicides, and a diverse list of organ system diseases."

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7146991/

 

And then COVID starting in 2020 dropped U.S. life expectancy rates off a cliff, as shown above.

 

As the above quoted PBS report notes, the current U.S. life expectancy rate (even with the latest rebound for 2022) is back to what it was 20 years ago.