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Important point. i would add to that the campaign to get narcan or the antidote for opioid into schools and where children know about it, parents is a good step. let me tell you the problem with that. that wears off. fentanyl doesn't. we designed fentanyl to treat cancer pain. it lasts for 2 or 3 days. the narcan may last only a matter of hours. it's the right thing for everybody to have to be able to use, it is not the answer alone. >> alicia: as a society, i think we can do better. you are talking about one death every five minutes. that's astonishing. look at this. u.s. life expectancy for ...

Import parting vaccines, that are more effective against these variants. it's just a case of very poor preparedness, unfortunately. >> yeah, and winter as well. not a great time to do this. eric topol, thank you. >> all right. >> good to see you, take care. >> > covid-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on overall life expectancy in the u.s.. it fell in 2021 to 76.4 years. that's nearly two and a half years less than what it was at the beginning of the pandemic. the lowest it's been for a quarter of a century since 1986. u.s. centers for disease control and prevention says the pandemic and d...

This just in to cnn, the cdc says u.s. life expectancy has dropped to its lowest level in 25 years. even with all the medical advances we've made, why? cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. elizabeth, break down this new report for us. >> reporter: ana, this report is really such sobering news, and i think everyone will understand the reasons why. so life expectancy which usually, you know, in recent decades just goes up, up, up with medical advances, with better prevention and diagnostics instead is going down, in other words, the life expectancy is lower than it had ...

More -- better diagnostics and prevention, but unfortunately now we've seen it go down for the second year in a row. so let's take a look at what the cdc found in this report. they found that the life expectancy in 2021 was 76.4. that's a seven-month decrease from the year before, and this is really a gut punch. the biggest drop -- the biggest drop in life expectancy was for people between the ages of 35 and 44. so very young people. the two drivers as you mentioned were covid and drug overdoses. so nearly 1 in 8 u.s. deaths in 2021 was due to covid-19, and nearly 107,000 deaths were from drug...

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