Health Affairs February 21, 2024
COVID-19 devastated New York City (NYC), leading to 4.6 years of lost life expectancy between 2019 and 2020, the first time in more than a century that NYC experienced a substantial decline. Declines were experienced among all New Yorkers, with the greatest declines among those identifying as Black or Latino/a—highlighting once again the legacy of inequity and racism entrenched in patterns of disease and death in the United States.
The pandemic was also a key moment of learning for public health and a call to reimagine public health’s role in government and in society, as it seeks to regain public trust and achieve its mission of better population health. Public health has been primarily responsible for most of the life...
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