{"id":18885,"date":"2022-08-31T16:44:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=18885"},"modified":"2022-08-31T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:45:20","slug":"18885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=18885","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-science-health-pandemics-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-0807d52898e7b01b4cb9be8addc5c191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-63 Component-p-0-2-54\">U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, according to a government report being released Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-63 Component-p-0-2-54\">In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the estimated American lifespan has shortened by nearly three years. The last comparable decrease happened in the early 1940s, during the height of World War II.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-63 Component-p-0-2-54\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials blamed COVID-19 for about half the decline in 2021, a year when vaccinations became widely available but new coronavirus variants caused waves of hospitalizations and deaths. Other contributors to the decline are longstanding problems: drug overdoses, heart disease, suicide and chronic liver disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-63 Component-p-0-2-54\">\u201cIt\u2019s a dismal situation. It was bad before and it\u2019s gotten worse,\u201d said <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Samuel Preston<\/span>, a University of Pennsylvania demographer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press: U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, according to a government report being released Wednesday. In the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the estimated American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=18885\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}