Life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States dropped by a shocking 4.7 years during the COVID-19 pandemic, about three times that of whites and by far the most of any ethnic group, according to new CU Boulder research.
The paper marks the latest in a series co-authored by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and the Washington-D.C.-based Urban Institute.
“As a nation, we tend to be blind to health trends in our Indigenous population because of challenges to collecting accurate data,” said co-author Dr. Steven Woolf, director emeritus of Family Medicine and Population Health at VCU. “Our study provides a rare glimpse into the scale of the disparities they live with and reminds us of the need for systemic change.”
Source: CU Boulder Today
