• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Other countries that are ahead of the U.S. in terms of life expectancy include: Colombia, Uruguay and Chile; Costa Rica, Panama and Puerto Rico; and Turkey, Greece and Albania.

    The U.S. ranks around 50th in the world for life expectancy (depending on data and what is considered a country or territory), and this has dropped 2.7 years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    However, the decrease in mortality for pneumonia (38.5 percent) helped the other way, as did a reduction in risk from other respiratory illnesses and Alzheimer’s disease.

    The country has a high ratio of medical professionals and focuses on prevention and primary care.

    In the years since, China’s life expectancy has steadily caught up with, and could now overtake, that of the U.S., depending on the country’s 2021 data.

    According to the World Bank, global life expectancy dropped, from 72.76 to 72.75, for the first time in 2020, after recording 60 years of gains since 1960.


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      1 year ago

      Just here to say that Puerto Rico is not a country. It’s a US territory

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        1 year ago

        Thank you! I was thinking the same thing. I hate it when news sources perpetuate racist disinformation.

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      mortality for pneumonia

      In case anyone doesn’t know where this stuff comes from: Think grandma breaking her leg getting into hospital lying in bed all the time and thereby contracting pneumonia. She had to stay that long because her bones don’t heal as they once did, and she contracted and died from pneumonia because her vascular and immune systems aren’t what they once were. Incredibly common cause of death among the elderly.