America Facing SHOCKING Decline In Life Expectancy

Dr. MarkAlain Dery joins the program to discuss the effects COVID is still having on the country and the world at-large. Life expectancy in the US fell from 77 to 76.4 years in 2021, which brings it back to 1996 levels, according to a federal data release. All of the medical advancements in the past 25 years have been erased. The decline in life expectancy for American men was 8 months and for women, it was 7 months. The decline was worse in 2021 than in 2020, and it occurred as other wealthy countries were seeing a rebound. The decline is largely blamed on low COVID-19 vaccination rates, poor health of Americans, and the leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19.

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We have the sharpest two-year decline in life expectancy in nearly a hundred years. Yeah, this is incredible this is incredible. This is the first time in the past like demographers, people who work with demographics and you know that is like epidemiologists but they're dealing with populations. What in the past they've only dealt with changes in the forms of weeks to months. Never has the unit of change been measured in years. And what we've seen now is a drastic reduction in life expectancy. And you know this is something that obviously is talked about regularly on the majority report is how difficult American life is. Working life you know the fact that we don't have unions that represent us. and the fact that you know all of the structural discrimination that exists in our society. And what that ultimately comes out to especially when we're talking about deaths of Despair is we're seeing this rapid reduction in life expectancy. And this is the first time it happened the first year. And the fact that it happened the second year was really stunning. And we're going to see in a couple months if it follows a three-year Trend. and unfortunately, you know as you could expect in this American society we live in it doesn't affect everybody the same. It disproportionately affects communities of color and the number three cause of death is covid. So something that before 2020 nope didn't exist. Now the number three cause of death. Especially when we're talking about the loss of expectancy of life is really as a result of covid. and that's really quite stunning. so and then of course the death despair. Which I know is something that you've talked about on this show several times before. Yeah and you can see in that life expectancy somewhere in 214 you see the sort of like almost like a soft like trough and that is particularly I think it was white men in the sort of I think 40 to 60 age group there was a decrease in life expectancy. Largely because of the opioid crisis and suicide. And it starts to come back up actually in 2019 and 2020. And then just all right it doesn't quite fall off a cliff but it sort of rolls down a hill as it were for everybody.

[hizzlemobizzle]

Republicans answer to our shorter life span is to raise the age to receive medicare and social security to 70 in hopes we won't live long enough to receive it.

[nsbdnow]

So many of America's problems would disappear if working Americans were just paid a decent wage for a change. They are suffering from a half-century of stagnant and declining pay due to voodoo trickle-down Reaganomics which we were promised would raise all boats. It didn't. They are long overdue for a very substantive raise. My understanding is that if pegged to productivity (because “hard work is rewarded”) the minimum wage should be well over $20, and if it went up at the same rate as Wall Street bonuses (hardly work?) it would be over $40. Can you imagine what it would be if it went up at the same rate as CEO compensation? Over 1000%! From BusinessInsider: “The typical full-time salary in America would be $102, 000 if wages had kept up with growth — but the economy has failed 90% of workers...”

[Romanticoutlaw]

it's almost like being too poor to live has dire consequences or something

[jeannerogers]

This should be no surprise. The USA is decades behind in having proper healthcare.

[stephenbailey]

Haven't had covid, a cold, or the flu since Spring 2020. Fully vaxxed and boosted. I visit with friends and have lunch at restaurants that have outdoor seating. Mask in enclosed public spaces.
Why?
Because I'm in my 60's and have a heart condition. My roommate has diabetes. Many of my friends are in their 70's and older.
It's not politics. Just taking care of each other.

[wenzel]

remember guys, when we hit zero, we dont have to pay taxes

[ToMPaSHKoV]

Fun fact: Cuba crushed the US in life expectancy, literacy and infant mortality. Seems to be important metrics for a healthy society.

[alexaber]

If we broke up life expectancy by political leaning, there would be a huge divide.

[Static-ash]

It's called a "living" wage for a reason... it's not a play-on-words

[GhostOnTheHalfShell]

Oh I think what happened to the Russian population faced a huge plummet in life expectancy, wealth, fertility on the USSR and neoliberal conversion to oligopoly. The numbers never have quite recovered or bare exceed parity pre USSR fall. What it shows is that plutocracy is worse than the party controlled version of the same economic structure.

plutocrats can be “private” or party members but it’s the same end.

[lastnamefirstname]

While we literally have to deal with George santos, devalder, I don’t really care… knowing danm well that if any one of “us” lied like that on in an interview process, we’d would get deleted from the payroll. Yet our literal civil servants just let it slide. Hella confusing

[ttttypes]

My 14-year-old son and I have remained up to date on our vaccines and continue to mask with N95s, neither of us have had symptomatic covid

[KateeAngel]

Who'd think charging people thousands of $ for using ambulance would have that effects, am I rite

[josejuarez]

Everything we consume is filled with chemicals smoke alcohol but mainly the fast food we consume is my guess

[horrido]

Health care for profit. Big surprise. So now that the life expectancy is going down, can we expect Social Security age to come down, too? Because that's the excuse they always use to raise it.

[mimcduffee]

It's not really that shocking. First there was covid then there was overturning of R v W to force births. More forced births means higher infant mortality rates. Higher infant mortality rates means lower life expectancy.

[JudasMaccabeus]

I’m pretty sure it’s entirely due to having to listen to MTG on a daily basis

[jwats]

That might explain the updates to the intake form that I had to fill out at the clinic. They were asking several questions about my mental well-being, if I felt suicidal, and if my social life declined.

[douchopotamus]

Its not that shocking when you look at what's happening in the country.

[tylerhackner]

Not actually that shocked unfortunately