The United States is "facing an acute crisis of democracy," precipitated by efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, stated Freedom House in a special report. In its latest annual report, Freedom House gave US democracy a score lower than most western countries.
Life expectancy in the US, already trailing life expectancy in other rich countries, took a far bigger fall due to the pandemic than it did in the other rich countries. Much of the US decline was in Black and Latino life expectancy.