BMJ. From 2018 to 2020, the average decline in life expectancy observed in the study was 8.5 times greater than the average in 16 other developed nations.Researchers found that white Americans lost 1.36 years, while people of color lost more than double the amount of years.
Black Americans lost 3.25 years and Hispanic Americans lost 3.88 years.The difference is “pretty catastrophic,” Dr. Steven Woolf, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and lead author of the study, told Kaiser Health News.Those two groups are also the groups disproportionately impacted by HIV. “A longstanding and widening US health disadvantage, high death rates in 2020, and continued inequitable effects on racial and ethnic minority groups are likely the.