Fall in U.S. life expectancy from COVID-19 deaths and long-term health effects

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A year of COVID-19 has had its toll in life expectancy.

Dennis Thompson reports for HealthDay, Feb. 18, 2021, that a new report by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), published in the Vital Statistics Rapid Release, found that average life expectancy in the United States took a drastic plunge during the first half of 2020. Overall U.S. life expectancy dropped to 77.8 years, down one full year from the 78.8 years estimated in 2019.

To put those numbers in context, it made headlines when average U.S. life expectancy, after years of steady increases, dropped by just 0.2 years between 2014 and 2015.

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Jen
Jen
3 years ago

Sorry, don’t know where to post this. Found an excellent blog called modernsurvivalblog.com. Comments on it, many from Texas, some from CA. Lots of practical advice.