LIFE expectancyCOVID-19INDIGENOUS peoples of the AmericasCOVID-19 pandemicThe article focuses on the provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, revealing a 1.1-year increase in U.S. life expectancy in...
US life expectancy drops a full year in COVID-19 pandemic Estimates released Feb. 18, 2021 by the CDC show minorities suffered the biggest impact, with Black people losing nearly three years and Hispanics losing nearly two years. Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one y...
MORE: Life expectancy dropped in 2020 in every US state, mainly due to COVID: CDC The report also looked at reasons for the increases in life expectancy. For the total population, more than 84% of the increase was credited due to decreases in COVID-19 mortality. Tribu...
(CNN)Life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020 primarily due to increases in death due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to early data released by the US Centers for D…
People visit the National Mall in Washington, DC, on Feb 23, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua] Life expectancy in the US is "worse'' than previously thought when compared to other developed nations because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, decades of societal strain such as increasing gun-related...
22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, life expectancy in the United States rose in 2019 for the second year in a row, according to two new federal government reports. But don't expect that good news to be repeated in 2020. The impact...
The impact of the pandemic is not just about COVID-19 mortality, increases in deaths due to heart disease and "deaths of despair" also accounted for the declines in life expectancy. Working age deaths accounted for substantial losses, especially among Hispanic people. ...
"Life expectancy gives us a snapshot of the health of a population," Dr. Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health, toldCNN. "Vaccination of the population brought a welcome reduction in COVID-19 mortality, and medical care forchronic ...
But life expectancy for 2020 could end up dropping as much as two to three years due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, said Robert Anderson, who oversees the CDC’s death statistics. "We’ve had a lot of deaths added since August, so I think a drop of two to three ye...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But life expectancy for 2020 could end up dropping as much as two to three years due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, said Robert Anderson, who oversees the CDC’s death statistics. "We’ve had a lot of deaths added since Aug...