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In April 2017, the British medical journal “The Lancet” created a group of 33 researchers to analyze the effects of President Trump’s health policy.
The group has compared figures for the number of deaths in the US with previous deaths in the US and in other countries.
The numbers are used to create statistical models for death rates in the United States if Trump had not changed US regulations and laws.
The result is a grim reading. In 2019 alone, 22,000 more people died in the United States than researchers believe would have lost their lives if policy had not been changed.
President Donald Trump and America’s head of infection control Anthony Fauci had different views on what science thought about the best ways to fight the coronary pandemic.
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Removed or removed more than 100 environmental rules
An overview from the New York Times shows that the Trump administration eliminated or reduced more than 100 environmental requirements.
Among these are 30 different rules for air pollution.
“The Trump administration has basically stopped enforcing the clean air law,” Philip Landrigan told Bloomberg Green.
He is an epidemiologist and pediatrician and one of the world’s leading advocates for children’s health and one of the 33 behind the Lancet article.
The Clean Air Act was introduced in 1970. Under President Obama, the law was used to limit emissions of CO and particulate matter.
Particulate matter is linked to a number of deadly diseases such as childhood asthma, cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, and diabetes.
– We’re seeing an increase in the number of deaths due to the environment and work environment since 2017, which comes after 50 years of decline, says Landrigan.
The graph shows a clear increase in the number of deaths due to the environment and the work environment in the US in recent years.
Photo: The Lancet
– It’s gotten worse since Reagan.
While the report is critical of the Trump administration’s policies, it also points to a trend in which the United States has outperformed other Western countries for decades.
Since the 1980s under Ronald Reagan, life expectancy growth in the United States has been much lower than in countries like Italy, Japan, and Germany.
According to the report, more than 450,000 more Americans died in 2018 than would have died if the United States had had the same death rate as other rich countries.
One of the leaders of the group behind the report, Professor Steffie Woolhandler of the City University of New York, says that “the health of Americans deteriorated even though the economy was doing very well.”
– That there is no connection between health and the health of the nation is a sign that our society is sick. While the rich have prospered, most Americans have lagged behind, both financially and medically, Woolhandler told Forbes.
The average age in the United States stopped increasing as much as in other Western countries in the 1980s.
Photo: The Lancet
Decrease in life expectancy in 2020
After the report was released, new figures on life expectancy in the US in 2020 were released on Thursday.
It showed that the average life expectancy in the United States dropped by a full year in the first half of last year.
At the end of the first half of last year, the median life expectancy in the United States was 77.8 years, compared with 78.8 years in 2019.
This is the largest single-year decline since 1942-1943, in the middle of World War II.
For men, the average was 75.1 years, a decrease of 1.2 years. Worse still was the situation for blacks in the United States. There, the average life expectancy was reduced to 2.7 years to 72 years.
