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A new study estimates that life expectancy in the United States decreased by nearly two years from 2018 to 2020, primarily due to the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. life expectancy decreased by an 'alarming' amount during pandemic Kaitlin Sullivan © Provided by NBC News Average life expectancy in the United States plummeted in 2020, widening the life expectancy gap between the U.S. and other high-income countries. The decline was particularly sharp among Hispanic and Black Americans, a new study found. Health experts anticipated life expectancy would drop during the pandemic, but how much it did came as a surprise. “I naively thought the pandemic would not make a big difference in the gap because my thinking was that it’s a glo...
You might need a Covid-19 booster shot CNN 3 hrs ago Got your Covid-19 vaccine? Great. But you may need another round within a year. A booster dose for people who have already been vaccinated may be needed as soon as eight to 12 months after their second shot, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said yesterday. As inoculations around the world continue to increase, medical experts believe coronavirus may end up being like influenza, which requires a new vaccine every year. This is because the circulating str...
2 hr 56 min ago Destruction of Gaza's Covid-19 lab poses high risk of virus spreading, say Palestinian health officials From CNN's Richard Greene in Jerusalem and Hande Atay Alam in Izmir, Turkey A medical worker works at the Rimal Clinic in Gaza on April 28. Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua/Getty Images Gaza's main Covid-19 laboratory, the Rimal clinic, is unable to carry out coronavirus testing after being destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, the Hamas-run Palestinian Ministry of Health said, warning the situation “certainly poses a high risk of the spread of the virus.” The ministry issued the w...
What if the pandemic never happened? For argument's sake, if fate had taken a different course – and we were spared the deadly consequences of COVID-19 – what would 2020 have looked like?