Doctors sound alarm after discovering 1.5 million Americans died after the Covid -Pandemie of a ‘silent epidemic’ that grasps the US.
Researchers from Boston University compared the deadliness percentage in the US about 2022 and 2023 in 21 comparable countries – including the VK and Australia.
After explaining population sizes, the results showed that an additional 820,000 Americans died in 2022 than would be the case if the US had a deadly figure comparable to Peer -Landen.
There were an extra 705,000 ‘surplus deaths’ in the US in 2023 when the same logic was applied.
Both totals were about 30 percent higher than pre-Pandemic levels of 631,000 surplus deaths were recorded in 2019.
Excess deaths – the number of fatalities above what is usually expected – increased during Covid due to the deaths due to direct virus, overwhelmed health care systems and economic hardships. But although the pandemia has officially ended, the increased death toll was held.
Researchers blame the continuing crisis for a combination of overdoses drugs, rifles, traffic accidents and chronic diseases such as heart failure and diabetes, all of which touch the US than other countries.
They also mentioned the lack of a robust social safety net – common in many European countries – as an important factor that deteriorates the toll.
The researchers said the increase was linked to the rising deaths due to overdose by drugs, among other things. Displayed above are people suffering from drug dependence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The above shows people suffering from drug dependence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were depicted on May 7
Dr. Jacob Bor, an epidemiologist who led the investigation, said: ‘The US has been in a long -term health crisis for decades, with health results much worse than other countries with a high income.
“This long-term tragedy continued to unfold in the shadows of the Covid Pandemie.”
For the study, published in Jama Health ForumThe researchers calculated the death mate per year for the US and that in 21 other developed countries.
These were: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New -Zeeland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the VK.
These figures were compared and analysis was performed to reveal how many additional deaths the US registered per year compared to the average for other developed countries.
For the study, researchers used data from The database of human death, the world’s leading scientific data sources on mortality in developed countries that cover the 1980s to 2023.
The analysis included 107 million deaths in the US and 230 million deaths registered in the 21 other countries between 1980 and 2023.
The graph above shows the excess number of deaths that is recorded in the US every year compared to that in comparable nations. Zero means that they have both included the same number of surplus deaths, while a min figure means that the US registers fewer deaths than the other nations
Excessive deaths have been upstairs in the US for years (shown above), before they rise during the Covid Pandemie
In the period 1980 to 2023 there were an estimated 14.7 million extra deaths in the US compared to other countries.
The American abundance due to the American dead is slowly rising since 1980, found the report and jumped during the Covid Pandemie.
They remain high today, with the data that showed that almost 23 percent of all American deaths were surplus killing in 2023.
Senior Study Author and Global Health Expert Dr. Andrew Stokes said: ‘These deaths do not reflect individual choices, but policy evidence and deep -rooted social and health system failures.
‘The Covid Pandemie Exposed structural weaknesses – including gaps in access to health care and social support – that have continued to feed premature deaths, even after the acute phase of the pandemic ended. ‘
Dr. Stokes added: ‘Other countries show that investing in universal health care, strong safety nets and evidence-based public health leads to longer, healthier lives.
‘Unfortunately, the US faces unique challenges; Public distrust of the government and the growing political polarization have made it more difficult to implement policy that has proved successful elsewhere. ‘
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