The Covid-19 pandemic set US life expectancy back by years, but new research shows that the country has been falling behind for decades
. In 1950, the US had the 12th longest life expectancy among certain populous countries, with more than half a million residents, according to a study published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health. There was a 3.5-year difference between the US and Norway, which had the longest life expectancy at the time.
A plateau in the 2010s led to a “dramatically” wider gap for the US, and the Covid-19 years were “simply phase six of something that has been going on since the 1950s,” Woolf said. “The pandemic was horrific loss of life, but it really reflects pre-existing, systemic problems in our country that have been compromising the health of Americans for decades.
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