Average American #lifeexpectancy fell again in 2021, with every category of the US population being affected by the decline. Life expectancy has now fallen back to where it was in 1996. Men lost eight months of expected life span. Women lost seven months. 1/
USA Today cites family and public health specialist, Professor Steven Woolf of Virginia Commonwealth University, who stated that the decline means that the positive benefit of all the medical advances of the past quarter century have been wiped out. 2/
The average American can now expect to live 76.4 years, a loss of eight months compared to 2020. The latter year recorded an even greater decline from the level of 2019. The rate of death is increasing from young adults and children. 3/
The pandemic is a significant but not the only cause of the rising rate of death. The trend began before Covid. The decline in life expectancy constitutes an indictment of capitalism. It is tragic proof that the United States is experiencing a terrible social regression. 4/4
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