US life expectancy actually peaked 10 years ago in 2014 and decreased for 3 years in a row after that. By 2019, US life expectancy had recovered a bit but was still below the 2014 peak. In other words, the problem predates COVID.
Great charts from last year from FT.
People literally just dying on the streets. US Social safety net is not for the bottom 1%.
And remember, the UK is 'twice' as poor as the US by GDP per capita, for all the people crowing that the poorest US states are so much richer than everyone else in the world. Pre-Covid data as well, in case someone wanted to push that excuse.
On a positive note though, mass use of weight loss medicine might improve US life expectancy over the next few decades.
But doesn't particularly solve the issue of people dying before 40.....