
Why We're Living Longer
TED Radio Hour
COVID and Life Expectancy
In the United States, life expectancy was creeping backwards for the first time in a very long while before COVID. And one of the reasons why it started to creep down is that so many people dying from those things were very young. So we had started to see this reversal, which was troubling already. The loss of life was was felt much harder in some communities inside the U.S.
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