FDA Now Claims Health Misinformation is Behind the Sudden Lowering of U.S. Life Expectancy
@COVID19Up: Life expectancy in the U.S. is between three and five years lower than the average in other high-income countries—and the gap comes in part from misinformation, warns FDA commissioner Dr. Robert Califf.
“It’s looking worse, not better, over the last several years,” Califf told CNBC in an interview Thursday (April 13) at the agency’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland.
“You think about the impact of a single person reaching a billion people on the internet all over the world, we just weren’t prepared for that,” Califf said.
“We don’t have societal rules that are adjudicating it quite right, and I think it’s impacting our health in very detrimental ways.”
He said there’s a need for better regulation, including
“specific authorities at FDA, FTC and other areas” to root out misinformation.
Source:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/us-life-expectancy-hurt-by-misinformation-fda-commissioner-robert-califf.html
