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Originally published on July 21, 2021 1:28 am Life expectancy in the United States declined by a year and a half in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says the coronavirus is largely to blame. It was the largest one-year decline since World War II, when life expectancy dropped by 2.9 years between 1942 and 1943. Hispanic and Black communities saw the biggest declines. For African Americans, life expectancy dropped by 2.9 years from 74.7 years in 2019 to 71.8 in 2020. U.S. Hispanics — who have a longer life expectancy than non-Hispanic Blacks or whites ...

Driven by covid deaths, U.S. life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years in 2020 Allyson Chiu, Lindsey Bever, Ariana Eunjung Cha © Salwan Georges/The Washington Post A family carries the casket of a covid victim, who died in his 50s, at a Hagerstown, Md., cemetery in January. Almost three-fourths of the decline in U.S. life expectancy last year is attributed to deaths from covid-19, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Life expectancy in the United States dropped by a year and a half in 2020 — a continuation of a worrisome decline that was observed in the firs...

Researchers led by Garth Rauscher, PhD, from the University of Illinois at Chicago found that racial and ethnic minority patients were more likely to experience treatment delay and less likely to have a sentinel node biopsy or report being recommended for hormone therapy. "These analyses are the first that we are aware of to examine whether access to accredited versus nonaccredited facilities at initial presentation might influence later medical events during diagnosis and treatment," the team wrote. Hospitals that have fewer resources are often designated by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and...

Researchers at the Weill Cornell Medical College aimed to determine the role of overcrowded households as a risk factor for COVID-19. The study's objective, which appeared in the medRxiv* pre-print server, was to examine the link between overcrowded and multigenerational households and COVID-19 in New York City.

NEW BRUNSWICK — Any of the approved COVID-19 vaccines can be had easily and equitably in New Jersey right now, with more than 1,800 vaccination sites in operation around the state. The shots are available free of charge regardless of health insurance status, but numbers crunched at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University seem to show that not everyone may realize that. "There is a certain degree of confusion, I would say, among the uninsured community, and they are afraid that they will end up getting the bill from the hospital," Soumitra Bhuyan, ...