
U.S. Life Expectancy Faces the Biggest Decline in 2020 After WWII
U.S. life expectancy fell by 1.5 years in 2020 due to hundreds and thousands of deaths caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic, chronic diseases, drug overdoses, and homicides. A similar decline, last seen during World War II in 1943. Elizabeth Arias, a demographer at the CDC’s (Centers for Disease Control) National Center for Health Statistics, and