The staggering estimated fall of U.S. life expectancy was reported on Thursday by the Centers for Disease 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 in life expectancy is largely due to deaths caused specifically by COVID-19 in 2020, it is also due to deaths from other causes that were impacted by COVID-19, such as heart disease and cancer.<br />Minorities suffered the most significant drops in life expectancy with Black Americans losing almost three years and Hispanic Americans 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 get worse." Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, UC San Francisco, via AP News.<br />In 2020, more than three million people died in the U.S. It was the deadliest year in the nation's history.
