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This week s news about life expectancy in the U.S. and how it dropped overall in 2020 echoes a sobering pattern that we saw all through the pandemic. Latino and Black people were hit the hardest. Life expectancy fell about three years for both groups, compared to 1.2-year drop for white people. We should note, the CDC s data on this didn t include Asian Americans or other racial or ethnic groups. But overall, COVID-19 deaths played the largest role in the life expectancy drop. Dr. Alicia Fernandez at the University of California, San Francisco, has seen the impact on the Bay Area s Black and brown communities firsthand. She studies what s called excess mortality across the state, and she joins us now.
Drastic Drop In Life Expectancy Is Far Steeper For Black And Latino Populations
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Drastic Drop In Life Expectancy Is Far Steeper For Black And Latino Populations
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