US Life Expectancy Dropped A Full Year, Partially Due To COVID
WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Life expectancy in the United States declined by one full year in the first half of 2020 to 77.8 years, down from 78.8 years in 2019.
The Covid-19 pandemic is partially responsible for this, according to a new report by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
CDC S National Center for Health Statistics released the report on Thursday based on statistics of deaths that occurred in the country from January through June, 2020.
The first case of coronavirus was reported in the U.S. on January 20, 2020. The worst pandemic ever to hit the country had claimed the lives of 127425 people and infected 2636538 others by June 30.
U.S. life expectancy fell by a year in the first half of 2020, CDC report finds
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As the Covid-19 pandemic took hold, life expectancy in the United States dropped one full year during the first half of 2020, according to a new Centers of Disease Control and Prevention report, with even greater declines seen among Black and Hispanic people.
Preliminary data from the agency’s National Center for Health Statistics released Thursday mark a reversal of incremental gains over the past few years. Life expectancy at birth for the total U.S. population declined from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.8 years for January through June 2020. During that same time period, life expectancy for non-Hispanic Black people decreased by 2.7 years (74.7 to 72); for Hispanic individuals, 1.9 years (81.8 to 79.9); and for non-Hispanic white people, 0.8 years (78.8 to 78).
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The year of 2020 may become the deadliest year in the history of the United States with the number of deaths in the year expected to exceed 3.2 million, according to preliminary estimates released by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Commenting on the figures, Robert Anderson, chief of Mortality Statistics Branch of the CDC, said life expectancy in the country could drop as much as three full years.