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2021-03-31

Indigenous Peoples and Vaccine's

One of the reasons Indigenous people aged 55+ were included in the initial COVID vaccine protocols is that is our average life expectancy. Compare this to ages 75+ for non-Indigenous people. After 154 years of Western medicine, we live half of what we did at the time of Contact.
2021-02-18

COVID-19 has already cut U.S. life expectancy by a year. For Black Americans, it's worse

The article discusses how the coronavirus is affecting Americans, especially how communities of color are suffering disproportionately (especially in regards to Black Americans and their life expectancy).