What The Study Did: Calculations of life expectancy based on official death counts revealed that U.S. life expectancy decreased by 1.87 years overall, and by 3.70 years in Hispanic populations and 3.22 years in non-Hispanic Black populations, between 2019 and 2020. The decrease in life expectancy in peer countries was an average of 0.58 years, with no country experiencing a decrease rivaling that of the U.S.
Authors: Steven H. Woolf, M.D., M.P.H., of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, is the corresponding author.
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