Life Expectancy in US Drops by a Full Year, Most Since World War II

Life Expectancy in
US Drops by a Full Year, Most Since World War II.
The staggering estimated
fall of U.S. life expectancy
was reported on Thursday
by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
This is a huge decline. You have to go back to World War II, the 1940s, to find a decline like this, Robert Anderson, CDC, via AP News.
Health experts say that while the drop
in life expectancy is largely due to deaths
caused specifically by COVID-19 in 2020, .
it is also due to deaths from other causes
that were impacted by COVID-19,
such as heart disease and cancer.
Minorities suffered the most
significant drops in life expectancy
with Black Americans losing
almost three years.
and Hispanic Americans
losing nearly two years.
What is really quite striking in these numbers is that they only reflect the first half of the year ... I would expect that these numbers would only
get worse, Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, UC San Francisco,
via AP News.
In 2020, more than three million
people died in the U.S. It was the
deadliest year in the nation's history