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It's an unnecessarily inflammatory title. It seems to imply that we were making progress until those damn millennials screwed it up and undid it. Also "undid" s
by zcw100 2y ago
It's an unnecessarily inflammatory title. It seems to imply that we were making progress until those damn millennials screwed it up and undid it. Also "undid" seems to imply some deliberate action.
Also from the article.
"Yancy sees three explanations for higher death rates from heart failure: First, the persistence of risk factors and the necessity to intervene there. “That’s actionable,” he said. Second, the persistence of health inequities. “That is theoretically actionable, but it will require as much public policy as it will require medical therapeutics and lifestyle change.” Third is the outsized influence of Covid-19, a phenomenon he said we have yet to understand."
So why are risk factors and interventions "actionable" but health inequities only "theoretically actionable"? There's also a direct connection and large overlap between health inequities and lack of interventions so the first and second are almost the same thing. The influence of covid-19 was the most interesting but they just shrugged and said, "We don't really know much bout that".
What's hard to understand here? Older generations are showering themselves with money to wash away their problems while the younger generation is poor and suffer from unaddressed health issues.