am at peace. he was treated for covid in october. bowden winning 377 games and 2 national championships during his 44-year career. our thoughts are with him tonight. and news on life expectancy in the u.s., the steepest decline since world war ii. a new federal report finding it dropped 1 1/2 years in 2020 on average to an average of 77.3 years. hispanic and black americans among the most affected. the drop, of course, fueled by this toll from this pandemic. when we come back tonight, made in america is back tonight, and here s the clue. how your cookout, even your workout, could help create an american job. get out of my face! hpv can cause certain cancers when your child grows up. get in its way. hpv can affect males and females. and there s no way to predict who will or won t clear the virus. the cdc recommends hpv vaccination at age 11 or 12 to help protect against certain cancers. hey. cancer! not. my. child.
and the numbers tonight, 186 million americans have received at least one dose of vaccine, 65% of people 12 years and older. abc s whit johnson leading us off. reporter: tonight, the coronavirus roaring back in the u.s. daily cases tripling in the last month to more than 35,000 per day. this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. reporter: and growing concern for unvaccinated kids. more than 23,000 new pediatric cases in the last week. nearly double the number reported at the end of june. in georgia, the family of wyatt gibson says he was a healthy 5-year-old before he contracted covid, strep, and staph. passing away on friday. his father, a sheriff s deputy, writing on facebook, i have lost my best friend. across the country, nearly 22,000 americans hospitalized with the virus. doctors in las vegas say they re reliving last winter s surge all over again.