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       US life expectancy reduced by a year from 2019 to
       mid-2020--greatest decline since WW2
   DIR By: agate
       Date: May 5, 2021, 3:41 pm
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       From NEJM Journal Watch (February 18, 2021):
       COVID-19: U.S. Life Expectancy Drops / Global Years of Life Lost
       By Kelly Young
       Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH
  HTML https://www.jwatch.org/editors/u1605?editor=undefined,
       and
       William E. Chavey, MD, MS
  HTML https://www.jwatch.org/editors/u1899?editor=undefined
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       > Here are some of the COVID-19 developments making news today:
       >
       > Life expectancy drops: Average life expectancy in the U.S.
       fell by a full year from 2019 to the first half of 2020,
       dropping from 78.8 to 77.8 years, according to preliminary CDC
       data. This is the largest decline since World War II, the New
       York Times reports. Males had a larger decline in life
       expectancy, falling from 76.3 to 75.1. By race, non-Hispanic
       Black people saw the largest drop, losing 2.7 years of life
       expectancy, from 74.7 to 72.0 years. The authors say that
       because these represent deaths from the first half of 2020, when
       certain regions may have been more affected by the COVID-19
       pandemic than others, they do not provide a full picture of the
       pandemic's effects.
       >
       > Years of life lost: In 81 countries, some 21 million years of
       life have been lost due to COVID-19, researchers estimate in
       Scientific Reports. On average, those who died lost an average
       of 16 years of life. In heavily affected countries,
       COVID-19-related years of life lost were 2-9 times that of
       median years of life lost due to seasonal influenza. Men have
       lost 44% more years of life than women.
       >
       > LINK(S):CDC National Vital Statistics Rapid Release article on
       life expectancy
  HTML https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/VSRR10-508.pdf
       (Free PDF)
       > New York Times story on life expectancy
  HTML https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/covid-life-expectancy.html<br
       />(Free)
       > Scientific Reports article on years of life lost
  HTML https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83040-3
       (Free)
       > NEJM Journal Watch COVID-19 page
  HTML https://www.jwatch.org/covid-19
       (Free)
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