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Substantial decreases in mortality in 2020 from the usual big killers, including cancer, heart disease, and chronic lung diseases, ended up swamped by deaths from COVID-19, researchers from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) confirmed.
Overall life expectancy in the U.S. declined 1.5 years in 2020 versus 2019, from 78.8 to 77.3 by far the biggest decrease in a single year since the Second World War. The 2020 figure was the lowest since 2003.
And as you might expect, COVID-19 was largely responsible for the decline, accounting for 74% of the negative contributions to American longevity, according to full-year 2020 data summarized in a Vital Statistics Rapid Release from NCHS.