weatheriscool wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 9:09 pm
caltrek wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 3:32 pm
Drop in Life Expectancy 'Speaks Volumes' About How U.S. Handled Covid
by Jessica Corbett
April 8, 2022
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/ ... vid-expert
Introduction:
(Common Dreams) Just over a month into year three of the Covid-19 pandemic, research revealed Thursday that life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2021—which followed a well-documented drop in 2020 and contrasted a recovery trend in other high-income countries.
"The life expectancy gap between the United States and its peer income countries is now over five years, which is an incredible gap."
The paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, shows that U.S. life expectancy fell from 78.86 years in 2019 to 76.99 years in 2020 and 76.60 years in 2021, a net loss of 2.26 years.
The study comes as progressives in Congress continue to fight for Medicare for All legislation to replace the U.S. for-profit healthcare system—one in which 112 million adults struggle to afford care, according to Gallup and West Health.
The research also comes just days after a Poor People's Campaign analysis exposed how the public health crisis was twice as deadly in poor counties as in wealthy ones and "exacerbated preexisting social and economic disparities that have long festered in the U.S."
Johns Hopkins University's case tracker reported that as of Thursday afternoon, Covid-19 had claimed 984,571 lives across the United States, or nearly 16% of the more than six million deaths globally.
I think it is far more complex then just covid. The poverty that we see in our cities is a good sign that people simply aint able to pay anymore and standards in general are dropping. It is really sad.
Part of that is because every three months there is new covid wave. In my area if you go to ER to see a doctor or see specialist you going to have very long wait time.
Than there are people afraid to go to hospital or see family doctor because they may get covid. So when they do show up later have more problems. Like some one has medical symptom and afraid to go to doctor.
There will not be covid exit strategy unless one or two things happen. One is a vaccine that last at least minimum a year and works with many varieties or two a proper plasma IV drug or some kind of anti IV viral drug.
Well herd immunity is not possible because there is a new wave every three months. So if you got say the omicron BA1 in December and of work sick and got over it now you can get the omicron BA2.
There going be point that businesses and stock market is going to say enough is enough and start crashing the market or lobbying the government to do some thing.
And well there is very little testing in the world so we cannot get full picture of the covid problem. But never a less it is costing businesses millions of dollars a year paying people getting sick every three months no matter if they go to hospitals or sick in bed all day. And even if it is 3 days and not the 10 to 15 days it was before or should be just the high numbers of people getting sick every week will add up the cost.
I cannot see businesses and stock market going on much more of this.
Unless they come out with some better vaccines or IV plasma drugs or anti IV viral drug the world will not break out of the pandemic.