US life expectancy fell year and a half in 2020 due to COVID-19 - CDC

In the wake of COVID-19, American life expectancy had one of the biggest one-year declines since World War Two, when life expectancy fell 2.9 years between 1942 and 1943.

An illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), depicts the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

An illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), depicts the 2019 Novel Coronavirus

(photo credit: MAM/CDC/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)

ByREUTERS

JULY 21, 2021 11:20

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