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https://hosted.ap.org/article/f4caaf4555563d09e927f1798136a869/us-life-expectancy-drops-year-pandemic-most-wwiiFeb. 18, 2021 12:01 AM EST
US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer
Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths, health officials are reporting.
Minorities suffered the biggest impact, with Black Americans losing nearly three years and Hispanics, nearly two years, according to preliminary estimates Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This is a huge decline, said Robert Anderson, who oversees the numbers for the CDC. You have to go back to World War II, the 1940s, to find a decline like this.
Other health experts say it shows the profound impact of COVID-19, not just on deaths directly due to infection but also from heart disease, cancer and other conditions.
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, said Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, a health equity researcher and dean at the University of California, San Francisco.
This is the first time the CDC has reported on life expectancy from early, partial records; more death certificates from that period may yet come in. Its already known that 2020 was the deadliest year in U.S. history, with deaths topping 3 million for the first time.
Life expectancy is how long a baby born today can expect to live, on average. In the first half of last year, that was 77.8 years for Americans overall, down one year from 78.8 in 2019. For males it was 75.1 years and for females, 80.5 years.
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US life expectancy drops a year in pandemic, most since WWII (Original Post)
dalton99a
Feb 2021
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elleng
(131,159 posts)1. 'dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020'
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)2. Making America Great Again, By Making People Die Younger
And yet 74 Million voted for more of this Shit. Too many people in America are Fucking Idiots.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)3. Same happened from 1918-1920.
During the Great Flu Pandemic.