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Driven by covid deaths, U.S. life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years in 2020 Allyson Chiu, Lindsey Bever, Ariana Eunjung Cha © Salwan Georges/The Washington Post A family carries the casket of a covid victim, who died in his 50s, at a Hagerstown, Md., cemetery in January. Almost three-fourths of the decline in U.S. life expectancy last year is attributed to deaths from covid-19, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Life expectancy in the United States dropped by a year and a half in 2020 a continuation of a worrisome decline that was observed in the first half of last year as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the country, according to federal data released Wednesday.

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