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According to a study published in The Lancet, the Covid-19 death rate in the U.S. was 40% higher than it was in similar high-income countries, and the Trump Administration’s undermining of science and public health agencies directly “impeded the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.”

Reducing the global demand for meat and dairy, especially in high-income countries, is an effective way to lower greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the rate of global warming.

Advancements in medicine and technology allowed us to live longer and longer, and the global lifespan among high-income countries has continued to steadily increase until the present day by about three years per decade throughout much of the 20th Century.

Increases in longevity have slowed in many high-income countries in the past couple of decades, but other researchers asked to comment on the study said life spans are expected to continue to grow, even if it’s at a slower rate.

However, the life expectancy for women in Japan, which is the world's longest-lived country and is often looked to as a preview of what to expect regarding changes in life expectancy in other high-income countries, has already exceeded 85.