Life expectancy in the U.S. continues to drop, driven by COVID-19

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Life expectancy in the U.S. fell in 2021, for the second year in a row. It was the first time life expectancy dropped two years in a row in 100 years.

 

In 2019, someone born in the U.S. had a life expectancy of 79 years. In 2020, because of the pandemic, that dropped to 77 years. In 2021 life-span dropped again — to 76.1 years. And for some Americans, life expectancy is even lower, according to a provisional analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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"To have this second year crash basically wiping out the meager gains made during this century is really pretty shocking," says John Haaga, a retired division director of the National Institute on Aging.

 

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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/31/1120192583/life-expectancy-in-the-u-s-continues-to-drop-driven-by-covid-19

 

 

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Per Johns Hopkins:

 

"Dr. Robert Anderson, Chief of Mortality Statistics at CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, said the type of loss experienced since 2019 is similar to the decline in US life expectancy after the 1918 influenza pandemic....

 

COVID-19 accounts for about half of the decline in life expectancy, while accidents and unintentional injuries, including drug overdoses, account for another 16%. COVID-19’s impact on mortality and morbidity, as well as healthcare systems, likely will continue long after the emergency phase of the pandemic ends, as researchers become more aware of the virus’s lasting health implications."

 

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"COVID-19 accounts for about half of the decline in life expectancy, while accidents and unintentional injuries, including drug overdoses, account for another 16%."