Yan et al.'s JAMA publication raises serious questions yet we have been seeing the trend across the last decade of declining life expectancy in US and other first world nations! COVID has now lit a

fire under longevity in a negative manner! Shocking how the Life expectancy for men in U.S. falls to 73 years — six years less than for women who are approximately 80 years, per study (Merelli)

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2811338

‘As life expectancy at birth in the US decreased for the second consecutive year, from 78.8 years (2019) to 77.0 years (2020) and 76.1 years (2021), the gap between women and men widened to 5.8 years, its largest since 1996 and an increase from a low of 4.8 years in 2010.^1,2’

‘The life expectancy of men in the U.S. is nearly six years shorter than that of women, according to new research published on Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

At least partially as a consequence of over 1 million Covid-19 deaths, life expectancy in the U.S. has declined significantly over the past few years, falling from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77 in 2020 and 76.1 in 2022 — undoing over two decades of progress. This puts the country far behind its wealthy peers: Countries such as Japan, Korea, Portugal, the U.K., and Italy all enjoy a life expectancy of 80 years or more. Countries such as Turkey (78.6) and China (78.2) also fare better. This falloff has become a key issue for the Food and Drug Administration.’

‘The picture is especially concerning for men, whose life expectancy is now 73.2 years, compared with women’s 79.1. This 5.9 year gap is the widest between the two genders since 1996.’

https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/13/life-expectancy-men-women/