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Beth Newcomb

Why are American lives getting shorter? (Vox)

By In the News

Vox spoke with Theresa Andrasfay of the USC Leonard Davis School about COVID-19 death rates among young people. She said high rates of chronic disease, obesity, and diabetes had not yet affected mortality statistics, but when a disease — Covid-19 — came along that had these as risk factors, “it was like lighting a match.”