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Theresa's avatar

U.S. Experienced Steepest Two-year Decline in Life Expectancy in a Century!

The U.S. has the lowest life expectancy among large, wealthy countries while it far outspends its peers on healthcare.

Most Americans have no idea that our lifespans are shorter. They don’t know that maternal deaths are increasing. Infant mortality is increasing. We have maternity deserts. Sarscov2 destroys placentas, leading to premature births and still births. People cannot afford to care for babies with holes in their hearts, water on their brains, missing chromosomes. Only the March of Dimes and some amazing Black female doctors are tracking the maternal crisis. It doesn’t make the news, cause it is is happening to women.

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Also we don't even have to go back historically to see what it looks like living with poor sanitation and disease without a proper treatment and prevention. There are plenty of countries today that suffer from these ails and low life expectancies below 50 years old, too. One such country is not far from the shores of the US: Haiti.

Yellow Fever still exists and is still a problem in many countries which is why if you're a global traveler, you have a Yellow Fever yellow vaccination card that you have to keep with you in order to gain access to several countries. Cholera and typhoid still plague many low-income countries as well as other diseases that no longer exist in the US that used to be endemic such as malaria and lymphatic filariasis. Now these diseases are considered neglected tropical diseases because they only impact the poorest of the poor.

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