Life Expectancy in <br />US Drops by a Full Year, Most Since World War II.<br />The staggering estimated <br />fall of U.S. life expectancy <br />was reported on Thursday <br />by the Centers for Disease <br />Control and Prevention (CDC).<br />This is a huge decline. You have to go back to World War II, the 1940s, to find a decline like this, Robert Anderson, CDC, via AP News.<br />Health experts say that while the drop <br />in life expectancy is largely due to deaths <br />caused specifically by COVID-19 in 2020, .<br />it is also due to deaths from other causes <br />that were impacted by COVID-19, <br />such as heart disease and cancer.<br />Minorities suffered the most <br />significant drops in life expectancy <br />with Black Americans losing <br />almost three years.<br />and Hispanic Americans <br />losing nearly two years.<br />What is really quite striking in these numbers is that they only reflect the first half of the year ... I would expect that these numbers would only <br />get worse, Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, UC San Francisco, <br />via AP News.<br />In 2020, more than three million <br />people died in the U.S. It was the <br />deadliest year in the nation's history
