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ABC News reports:
Every state saw a decline in life expectancy during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new federal data published Tuesday. The report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, looked at death data for 2020, the last year for which complete data is available.
Results found that life expectancy declined in all 50 states and the District of Columbia from 2019 to 2020, mainly due to COVID and “unintentional injuries,” such as drug overdoses, according to the report. For the United States overall, life expectancy at birth was 77.0 years — a decrease of 1.8 years from the life expectancy of 78.8 years in 2020.
Bloomberg News reports:
Life expectancy in New York plummeted by three years in 2020, the biggest decline among all states in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Residents of the state are expected to live to just under 78, the 15th-highest life expectancy in the country and a steep drop from 2019, when they had the third-highest ranking, the health authority said in state-level data published Tuesday.
The pandemic, coupled with higher drug-overdose deaths, contributed to shaving almost three years off life expectancy in Washington, D.C., and Louisiana.
Every state saw a decline in life expectancy during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new federal data. https://t.co/cEpYlsNUnI
— ABC News (@ABC) August 23, 2022
Life expectancy in New York plummeted by three years in 2020, the biggest decline among all states in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the CDC says. Overall US life expectancy plunged by 1.8 years in 2020, the biggest drop since World War II. https://t.co/HTTS40jTuU
— Bloomberg (@business) August 23, 2022