The life expectancy data for 2020-22 shouldn't really surprise us, given our less-than-optimal Covid performance and the much higher excess mortality over age 60. The article acknowledges the Covid issue and says the drop is "on the FDA's radar" -- which is rich, considering the CDC and FDA in combination generated a faulty initial test …
The life expectancy data for 2020-22 shouldn't really surprise us, given our less-than-optimal Covid performance and the much higher excess mortality over age 60. The article acknowledges the Covid issue and says the drop is "on the FDA's radar" -- which is rich, considering the CDC and FDA in combination generated a faulty initial test and wouldn't approve the many better tests developed in the academic and private sectors, preventing us from using the test-and-quarantine regime that largely succeeded for the critical first year before vaccines became available in South Korea. Then our public health establishment compounded the error by going with lockdowns too late to be effective, but for long enough to enhance "deaths of despair" - suicide and drug overdoses.
The life expectancy data for 2020-22 shouldn't really surprise us, given our less-than-optimal Covid performance and the much higher excess mortality over age 60. The article acknowledges the Covid issue and says the drop is "on the FDA's radar" -- which is rich, considering the CDC and FDA in combination generated a faulty initial test and wouldn't approve the many better tests developed in the academic and private sectors, preventing us from using the test-and-quarantine regime that largely succeeded for the critical first year before vaccines became available in South Korea. Then our public health establishment compounded the error by going with lockdowns too late to be effective, but for long enough to enhance "deaths of despair" - suicide and drug overdoses.