{"id":11521,"date":"2021-07-21T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11521"},"modified":"2021-07-21T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T20:35:35","slug":"not-a-good-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/07\/21\/not-a-good-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Not A Good Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-health-coronavirus-pandemic-fac0863b8c252d21d6f6a22a2e3eab86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from AP<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">US life expectancy in 2020 saw biggest drop since WWII<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By MIKE STOBBE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-17-at-5.41.42-PM-768x560.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, public health officials said Wednesday. The decrease for both Black Americans and Hispanic Americans was even worse: three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drop spelled out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is due mainly to the COVID-19 pandemic, which health officials said is responsible for close to 74% of the overall life expectancy decline. More than 3.3 million Americans died last year, far more than any other year in U.S. history, with COVID-19 accounting for about 11% of those deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black life expectancy has not fallen so much in one year since the mid-1930s, during the Great Depression. Health officials have not tracked Hispanic life expectancy for nearly as long, but the 2020 decline was the largest recorded one-year drop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The abrupt fall is \u201cbasically catastrophic,\u201d said Mark Hayward, a University of Texas sociology professor who studies changes in U.S. mortality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-health-coronavirus-pandemic-fac0863b8c252d21d6f6a22a2e3eab86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at AP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP US life expectancy in 2020 saw biggest drop since WWII By MIKE STOBBE NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, public health officials said Wednesday. The decrease for both Black Americans and Hispanic Americans was even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}