The most important story you’ll read today on the U.S. It’s all there and should be considered an emergency.
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) March 26, 2023
Scientists warned a decade ago American lives were shortening. Then it got worse : Shots – Health News : NPR https://t.co/5apyvwJhdO
Americans’ life expectancy is plummeting. The graphic is stunning.
— Art Walaszek (@artwalaszek) March 25, 2023
“American life expectancy is lower than that of Cuba, Lebanon, and Chechnya.”#MedTwitter https://t.co/2GX3zRgFhE pic.twitter.com/6NxbO01VBr
NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 31, 2023
My column: https://t.co/dBIhT9eZLv
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English. pic.twitter.com/pOoziEK5mZ
Things have deteriorated so much that the average American now has the same healthy life expectancy (years lived in good health) as someone in Blackpool, the town with England’s lowest life expectancy (by far), synonymous with deep-rooted social decline https://t.co/jicW0G4Uz4 pic.twitter.com/pPSzcFofh3
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 31, 2023
This is so, so awful. “This is the first time in my career that I've ever seen [an increase in pediatric mortality] – it's always been declining in the United States… Now, it's increasing at a magnitude that has not occurred at least for half a century." https://t.co/R8MLPoprj2
— Dr Kathleen Bachynski (@bachyns) March 25, 2023
“Our life spans lag behind those of our peers; our life expectancy was already more or less flat, not growing; and most other countries bounced back from covid-19 in the second year of the pandemic, while we went into further decline.” https://t.co/y5CUJ01f3h
— David Wallace-Wells (@dwallacewells) June 2, 2023
Sad! 