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Rayjc58 t1_j620ttk wrote

Reply to comment by flojo2012 in US Life Expectancy in 2021 Lowest Since 1996, according to recent article in JAMA by Dying-gaul

Fox confusion writer For most Europe and AUS/NZ , they have higher life expectancy than USA , due to the aforementioned

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flojo2012 t1_j621xw7 wrote

Did European countries see a similar dip?

Many of the items you described were also problems before the pandemic, so it doesn’t exactly explain the dip. It would be curious to find if other countries saw a dip as well, or the size of their dip.

The article does attribute the dip to drug overdoses and Covid, mainly.

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