{"id":20166,"date":"2022-08-31T05:38:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T09:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20166"},"modified":"2022-08-31T05:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T09:38:51","slug":"u-s-life-expectancy-drops-sharply-the-second-consecutive-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20166","title":{"rendered":"U.S. life expectancy drops sharply, the second consecutive decline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Kate Sheridan for ST<em>A<\/em>T) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans born in 2021 can expect to live for just 76.1 years \u2014 the lowest life expectancy has been since 1996, according to a new government analysis published Wednesday. This is the biggest two-year decline \u2014 2.7 years in total \u2014 in almost 100 years.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/08\/31\/u-s-life-expectancy-drops-sharply-the-second-consecutive-decline\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/08\/31\/u-s-life-expectancy-drops-sharply-the-second-consecutive-decline\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Kate Sheridan for STAT) Americans born in 2021 can expect to live for just 76.1 years \u2014 the lowest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,52],"tags":[75,74],"class_list":["post-20166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-pandemic","tag-covid-19","tag-life-expectancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20167,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20166\/revisions\/20167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}