Peter GleickIt's not just the recent massive drop in life expectancy from the Trump/GOP disastrous anti-vaxx, failed Covid19 response.
It's also how badly the US has been lagging for decades because of guns, poor maternal and child health care, cars, and more guns.
Alex Wild@petergleick at some point, many empirical measures will no longer classify the United States as a “developed” country.
CelloMom On CarsThere is a spectrum of Americas. It would be instructive to add each income decile of Americans onto this graph.
Look @xandris someone went through the data and oooh boy.
From an article by John Burn-Murdoch who doesn't post much here so here is a bluebird thread where he serves up highlights from the article, including this stunner:
"One in 25 American five-year-olds today will not make it to their 40th birthday."
You gotta read the whole thread.
John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) on X
NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: https://t.co/dBIhT9eZLv And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
The #US map below shows the average age of death, ranging from 66.8 years (deep red) to 86.8 years (deep blue). There is a good reason for the choice of colors.
"These geographical disparities aren’t artifacts of pure geography or demographics; they’re the consequences of policy decisions at the state level." And that depends on state politics.
