September 2, 2022
Kate Sheridan of STAT+ reported August 31, 2022 for live births in 2021, life expectancy for those Americans has dropped to the lowest level in 26 years.
Robert Anderson, chief of mortality statistics “branch of the National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” required his staff to rerun the numbers after discovering a 6.5 year decrease over the last two years.
The article continues, “The Covid-19 pandemic is the primary cause of the decline. However, increases in the number of people dying from overdoses and accidents is also a significant factor. American Indian and Alaskan Native people have experienced a particularly precipitous drop in life expectancy since 2019, going from 71.8 to 65.2 years. This kind of loss is similar to the plunge seen for all Americans after the Spanish Flu”.
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