The COVID-19 reduced life expectancy by more than two years in 16 states of USA over the past year, and the worst damage has been concentrated in the Sun Belt and Great Plains regions.
In Texas, COVID-19 caused an implicit reduction in life expectancy at birth from 2.6 years, to 76.4, in the twelve months ending in September, according to an analysis of mortality statistics by a professor of sociology at the University of California. California in Los Angeles, Patrick Heuveline, an update on data originally published in the BMJ Open magazine.
In Arizona, the decline was from 2.6 years to 77.2 and in South Dakota, from 2.5 years to 76.8. This is a drastic change from the first year of the pandemic, when northeastern states topped the list.
COVID-19 has consistently been among the leading causes of death in the United States, but the widely used per capita death metric can sometimes lead to erroneous conclusions because it does not consider the effect of population age on the results. The virus is far more deadly for the elderly than for the young, but Heuveline’s data takes age and gender into account in order to make comparisons.
Nationwide, COVID reduced life expectancy by 1.5 years to 78.7 in the twelve months ending Sept. 30, according to Heuveline data.
COVID-19 has caused more than 721,000 deaths in the United States, more than any other pandemic, and the highest death toll of any country.
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