People queue for a Covid-19 test in Times Square as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread in Manhattan, New York City, US, on Dec 26, 2021.Life expectancy in the United States fell by nearly two years in 2020 to about 77 years amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the sharpest drop compared to 21 other high-income countries, according to a global study.
The decline of 1.87 years in life expectancy for 2020 was far higher than the mean reduction of 0.58 years in 21 peer countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Denmark and South Korea. No country experienced a decrease as steep as that of the United States, according to the study. Authors of the study said the United States mismanaged the federal, state and local responses to the Covid-19 pandemic at the start, contributing to higher death rates than those in other countries. The pandemic response exacerbated the life expectancy gap between the US and its peers.
"US life expectancy has been falling behind other countries since the 1980s, and the gap has widened over time, especially in the last decade," he said.
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