demography
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U.S. Life Expectancy Has Biggest Fall Since WWII Amid Covid-19 and Drug Overdoses
As expected, the first year of the covid-19 pandemic has lowered the collective life expectancy of Americans. Researchers from the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week that life expectancy at birth dropped 1.5 years from 2019 to 2020, with most of the decline attributed to the pandemic. The drop is the…