Life expectancy dropped a full year in United States during first half of 2020, CDC says Jessica Schladebeck
Life expectancy dropped a staggering full year in the United States during the first six months of 2020, a devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic, which government and health officials are still working to contain.
The grim finding was revealed Thursday in a report released by the Centers for Disease Control, which provides some of the first major insights into COVID-19′s effect on a person’s life span. Researchers with the National Center for Health Statistics following an analysis of all U.S. deaths and provisional birth records, between January and June 2020 found life expectancy in the United States dropped to 77.8 years from 78.8 years in 2019.
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