Gothamist reports:
The COVID-19 pandemic shortened average life expectancy for New Yorkers by more than four years, hitting the city’s minority populations hardest, according to a report released on Friday.
The study by the city’s health department looked at trends in births and deaths in New York City during 2020, the year when COVID-19 arrived. The analysis found that from 2019 to 2020, life expectancy in New York City fell to 78 years — a staggering 4.6 year drop.
The mortality rate in 2020 was 241.3 deaths per 100,000 New Yorkers, according to the health department. A rise in unintentional drug overdoses also played a role in the 42.2% increase in deaths in 2020 over the year before.
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New Yorkers’ life expectancy were cut by four years due to the deadly COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, according to NYC Health.
The mortality rate was 223 deaths per 100,000 city residents with city’s minority communities hit the hardest.https://t.co/mzwZhOp0sq
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