The Invisible Hand Of The Free Market has determined that Britons were living suboptimally long and moved to correct the situation.

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Life expectancy across the UK has fallen to its lowest level in a decade, mainly owing to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, data shows.

Boys born between 2020 and 2022 can expect to live to 78.6 years, a decrease of 38 weeks compared with the same measure between 2017 and 2019.

The Office for National Statistics said the decrease was primarily owing to the impact of the pandemic, where excess deaths increased sharply.

Veena Raleigh, senior fellow at The King’s Fund, said that the data was worrying and “lays bare the impact that the pandemic has had on life expectancy in the UK”.

She said: “Although life expectancy has recovered somewhat since the sharp fall in 2020 when the pandemic struck, it’s not had the bounce-back that might have been expected once the worst of the pandemic was over, pointing to deeper problems with the health of the nation and the resilience of the health care system.

Raleigh added that many deaths in the UK were because of preventable sicknesses, and that “improving life expectancy in the UK will require a coherent cross-government strategy that supports people to make healthy choices, identifies and treats illness earlier, and reduces health inequalities by improving the health of people in deprived communities”.

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