Life expectancy in the U.S. experienced a rapid decline -- the biggest in more than a century. And the challenge is reversing the decline.
In 2021 the CDC reported on average people lived to be 76. That’s down almost three years from its peak.
“I think politics and apathy have gotten in the way of the solutions, but they don’t have to. You know when Florida passed the extreme risk law after the Parkland shootings, shows that politics does not have to get in the way of a sensible policy,” said Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative.
The Bloomberg Health Initiative released a report Tuesday identifying six reasons for the dramatic decline in life expectancy. They include COVID, overdoses, gun-related homicides and suicides; teen suicides; motor vehicle fatalities and heart disease, stroke and diabetes. “It is pretty staggering when you look at the charts,” said Sharfstein. “It’s not just 2.8 years overall but if you look at Black Americans, it’s more than a four-year decline, for Indigenous Americans, it’s more than a six-year decline, and it erased all gains for decades. So we have a problem, and the good news is it’s not inevitable. We shouldn’t be apathetic and think it’s gonna be politics or it’s always like it here in this country. It hasn’t always been like this.
The report concludes that if the trend is going to reverse and life expectancy is going to rise again, the devastating decline demands both immediate action and systemic change.
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