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@IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences, @JohnsHopkinsSPH MPH ‘22, @Columbia BSc '17. I love discussing technology, health, policy. Tweets are my own
Oct 16, 2021 13 tweets 15 min read
In July of 2021, the @CDCgov announced a decrease in US life expectancy of 1.5 years, the biggest one-year decline since #WWII. Even before COVID-19, however, the US has seen several years of declining life expectancy in the past decade. #ph260720 #COVID
cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom… Meanwhile, we see a widening gap in medical care between those with high and low status, leading to much larger declines in life expectancy for black and brown populations during #COVID19. How do you think these gaps came to be? #ph260720 #Healthcare