NPR interviewed Eileen Crimmins about the U.S. life expectancy recovering after a post-pandemic decline and why U.S. life expectancy lags behind other wealthy countries. KPBS and LAist republished the article; multiple NPR and APM radio stations around the country aired the story.
Crimmins says other wealthy countries in Europe and Asia do much better on preventing early deaths from causes such as heart disease, gun violence, giving birth and infectious diseases for which there are vaccines. “These are things that don’t require scientific investigation to know how to actually prevent them,” she says. “Other countries prevent them. We don’t.”
