White Americans are dragging down U.S. life expectancy. Here’s why


The decrease in U.S. life expectancy in 2021 was split heavily across racial lines, with white Americans bearing the largest brunt. Among white Americans, life expectancy dropped roughly a third of a year in 2021, whereas among Hispanic Americans there was a slight increase in life expectancy, and among Black Americans, it rose by 0.4 years.
The authors of the study said the reasons for the “surprising crossover” in racialized outcomes between 2020 and 2021 were “not entirely clear and likely have multiple explanations.” But they speculated that vaccine hesitancy among certain populations could have been a factor.

“It’s hard to imagine that willingness to be vaccinated is not a piece of that puzzle,” Laudan Aron, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and coauthor of the study, told The Washington Post.
Vaccines, my ass.

https://fortune.com/2022/04/08/us-li...ericans-covid/