CDC Reports that Covid-19 and Drug Overdoses Lowered US Life Expectancy

12/27/2022 12:06 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

In 2021, for the second consecutive year, life expectancy in the United States dropped according to final mortality data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.

Life expectancy is now almost two adn a half years shorter than it was before the Covid-19 pandemic and Covid-19 was a major cause of that decline. Life expectancy declined 1.8 years in 2020 and  0.6 years in 2021.  As a result, life expectancy in 2021 was  76.4 years.

Nearly 1 in 10 deaths in 2020 were due to Covid-19.  That death rate due to Covid-19 increased to 1 in 8 deaths in 2021 making it the third leading cause of death.  The leading causes of death remain heart disease followed by cancer.  these three causes resulted in almost half of all deaths last year.

Another increasing cause of death in 2021 was drug overdose with nearly 107,000 deaths due to drug overdose.

Read more at CNN


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