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Original title: Last year, 400,000 “excessive deaths” in the United States …
According to the American media, the new corona epidemic has hit the United States badly: unemployment has risen dramatically, hospitals have been overwhelmed, deaths have skyrocketed, and the life expectancy of Americans will be shortened.
More than a million people are unemployed in a single week
According to a report published on the New York Times website on January 14, as the new corona epidemic continues to seriously affect the economy, the number of new applications for unemployment benefits in several US states. It has increased considerably in the past week.
The Labor Department said that in the first week of the new year, a total of 1.15 million people filed for state unemployment benefits for the first time. In addition, there are 284,000 people applying for the new crown unemployment assistance, which is an emergency program provided by the federal government for the self-employed, part-time workers, and others who are generally not eligible for state unemployment benefits.
According to the report, as the new corona epidemic hits the service industry hard, economists have always expected a new wave of requests for help. The government reported last week that in December last year, the United States laid off 140,000 jobs, of which the largest reduction in jobs was in restaurants, bars and hotels.
Daniel Zhao, senior economic expert at job search website “Glass Door”, said: “We all know the epidemic is getting worse. With the employment report released last Friday, we can see that we are in a serious economic dilemma. . Going deeper and deeper in the wrong direction. “
Since the first wave of the new corona epidemic last spring, the job market has recovered somewhat. But of the 22 million jobs lost, nearly 10 million have yet to return.
▲ On January 11, a nurse was caring for a new crowned patient in the intensive care unit of a California hospital. (AFP)Several state hospitals are overwhelmed
According to a report published on the website of the American “New York Times” on January 14, since March last year, the number of deaths in the United States has increased by at least 400,000 more than in normal years, which fully illustrates the tremendous damage caused by the new corona epidemic.
An analysis of death data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the new corona epidemic has also led to an unusual pattern of deaths, and the number of deaths is even greater than the number official total of deaths directly related to the new corona virus.
From March 15, 2020 to December 26, 2020, the number of deaths in the United States was 18% higher than in normal years. Since the latest death data is still being updated, our stats may still be underestimated.
The report noted that our analysis looked at deaths from all causes since the spread of the new corona virus in the United States last spring, not just confirmed cases of the new corona. By doing so, comparisons can be made without relying on the accuracy of the cause of death report. Epidemiologists call the difference between the number of observed deaths and the number of deaths in normal years the “excess number of deaths.”
Public health researchers use this method to measure the impact of catastrophic events because official standards for death statistics are flawed.
As the new coronary pneumonia spread across the United States, the geographic pattern of abnormal death statistics also emerged. Now, every state is experiencing excess deaths. Among them, California, Colorado, Kansas and Ohio have seen a sharp increase in deaths in recent weeks.
According to the report, counting the death toll takes time and many states are weeks or months late in reporting. During the period of our analysis, the death toll was 21% higher than the estimated official death toll from new crowns. If this situation continues until January 14, the total death toll will reach 470,000.
During this period, most of the excess deaths were caused by the new corona epidemic, but the number of deaths caused by other causes may also increase. This is because hospitals in some critical points have been overwhelmed and people are afraid to go to the hospital to treat some who can usually survive. disease.
Life expectancy reduced by 1.13 years
Also, according to a report published on the US “Science Daily” website on January 14, researchers from the University of Southern California and Princeton University found that the new corona epidemic killed at least 336,000 lives in the United States last year, severely affecting life expectancy.
In an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States on the 14th, researchers predicted that deaths caused by a new coronary pneumonia last year will reduce the average life expectancy of Americans by 1.13 years to 77.48 years. This is the largest annual decrease in life expectancy in at least 40 years, and it is also the lowest year of life expectancy since 2003.
Among minority groups, the decline in life expectancy may be more pronounced. Researchers predict that the life expectancy of blacks will decrease by 2.1 years to 72.78 years, and the life expectancy of Hispanics will decrease by 3.05 years to 78.77 years. Whites were also affected, but their life expectancy fell much more, dropping just 0.68 years to 77.84 years.
Overall, the gap in life expectancy between blacks and whites is expected to increase by 40%, from 3.6 years to over 5 years. More evidence suggests that this disease has a much greater impact on the poor.
The article’s author and University of Southern California researcher Teresa Andrashfay said: “Our research looks at the impact of this abnormal number of deaths on life expectancy across the country and the impact on marginalized groups. The impact of the new corona epidemic in African Americans and Hispanics have a greater impact on life expectancy, which may be related to their increased risk of exposure in the workplace or in the extended family. In addition, their medical conditions they are worse, which also leads to more infections and worse the outcome of. “
