The report is based on data collected on American death certificates tracked by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics and affirms the declining rates. 23.12.2022, Sputnik International
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new report on Thursday revealing the shocking discovery that the average life expectancy for Americans has dropped for the second consecutive year and is the lowest it has ever been since 1996. Since COVID-19 was first detected in 2019, life expectancy has fallen by 2.7 years as of last year.Those born in the US in 2021 are now expected to only live until they are 76.4 years old, which is down from a peak of 78.8 years in 2019. That is a significant drop considering the average life expectancy statistical change to range somewhere between 0.1 and 0.2 years.One in eight deaths for 2021 were caused by COVID-19, which is an increase from one in 10 deaths in 2020.According to Kenneth Kochanek, a co-author of the report, life expectancy in the US has been increasing for decades until COVID-19 hit the world in January of 2020.
